Re: booting the kernel when ia32 processor is already in protected

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:00:39 +0100 (BST)

> anyone have any clues as to how one would get it working?
> it'd be a shame to have to remove the bootstrap loader that already exists
> -- re-creating the same functionality would be painful.

You need to rewrite the kernel head.S for 32bit mode and the loader. If the
loader has done BSS clearing your new head is probably little more than
setting up some sizing info and jumping

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