A Study on and Implementation of Booting Techniques of the Operating System on X86 Platform
Zhaozhi Wu · Nanjing Xiaozhuang Xueyuan xuebao · 2011
The paper introduces three kinds of typical medium storage structure for booting operating system from a floppy disk on the X86 platform,and taking a demo experiment for example,describes the commonly-used techniques and implementation methods of booting and starting operating system in a protected mode,including booting operating system from a floppy disk,turning on A20 line,setting GDT and IDT,jumping into the protected mode,installing the ELF formatted kernel module,kernel frame,direct screen writing,and starting the kernel module,etc.