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Line 11: === Loading your kernel === The bits of your kernel are somewhere on some disk (presumably the booting disk, but this is not mandatory). Question is: where on the disk ? Is it a regular file on a [[FAT\|FAT-formatted]] floppy ? isIs it a collection of consecutive sectors in the "reserved area" of the FAT12 floppy (in which case you may need a dedicated tool to format the disk and install the kernel on it) ? Or is the floppy simply left unformatted and the kernel pasted directly with a disk image tool? All the above options are possible. Maybe the one I'd choose myself would be to reserve enough space on a FAT12 floppy to store the list of sectors used by the kernel file. The "advantage" of being fully-FAT12 is that you don't need to re-write the bootsector every time you rewrite the kernel.

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