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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon rust-osdev

Basic instructions for FileSystem

Open vinaychandra opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

The current bootloader generates a ".bin" file at the end which is a hard disk image. Is it possible to provide some instructions to generate a simple FAT disk with that bin file of ELF file?

Because the bootloader is completely customized, i am struggling to understand how to put the bin file or some part of the kernel in an actual file system. For example, using GRUB one can follow these to generate disks

Or alternatively, can we make GRUB boot this bootloader (not chainloading because it works on different disks)

vinaychandra avatar Jun 12 '20 07:06 vinaychandra

Currently you would have to chainload this bootloader, we don't provide any kind of multiboot compatibility. It's possibly planned in the future, however we have a lot of other ideas we would like to set in motion first, such as our 16-bit rewrite and support for UEFI booting. If you would like to contribute to multiboot support, come have a chat in our gitter

katietheqt-old avatar Jun 12 '20 13:06 katietheqt-old