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* give yourself the time about thinking whether you'll enable paging now or not. Keep in mind that debugging paging initialization code without the help of exception handlers may quickly become a nightmare! |
* give yourself the time about thinking whether you'll enable paging now or not. Keep in mind that debugging paging initialization code without the help of exception handlers may quickly become a nightmare! |
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* it is possible to perform more initialization once protected mode is enabled and before kernel is loaded. This will, however, require that you mix 16 bits and 32bits code in a single object file, which can quickly become a nightmare too... |
* it is possible to perform more initialization once protected mode is enabled and before kernel is loaded. This will, however, require that you mix 16 bits and 32bits code in a single object file, which can quickly become a nightmare too... |
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* it is very likely that your kernel does not start with an executable code, rather it has an ELF or PE header at 10000h. You'll have to parse that to get the entry point to jump to. |
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== You have long way to continue... == |
== You have long way to continue... == |
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