/* https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples#bios-disk-load */ #include "common.h" BEGIN CLEAR /* Reset disk. TODO is this really needed? * Was suggested in one tutorial. */ /*mov $0, %ah *mov $0x80, %dl *int $0x13 */ /* Read sectors into memory */ mov $2, %ah /* Number of sectors to read. */ mov $1, %al /* Drive number. Starts at 0x80, second one is 0x81. TODO why not from 0? * * The BIOS stores the right number on dl as an initial state, * but we may be destroying it before, and are lazy to properly store it somewhere. * http://stackoverflow.com/a/19387093/895245 */ mov $0x80, %dl /* cylinder number */ mov $0, %ch /* Head number */ mov $0, %dh /* Starting sector number. 2 because 1 was already loaded. */ mov $2, %cl /* Where to load to. * Must coincide with our stage2 for the linking to work. * * The address is calculated as: * * .... * 16 * ES + BX * .... */ mov $stage2, %bx int $0x13 jmp stage2 /* Our linker script will put this section on the right place in memory: * just after the magic bytes. */ .section .stage2 stage2: PUTC $'a hlt /* We could use `.org` here to fill up the second sector to a multiple of 512 bytes. * But the linker does that beautifully with `. = ALIGN(512)` for any size of stage2, * so we use that instead. */ /*.org 512*/