Custom Bootloader Development Techniques (Windows)

About

This project was created as a demo tutorial for low-level and kernel developers. The sample researched is a custom bootloader code to replace/complement a default Windows boot loader.

Implementation

Our bootloader is primarily based on C++ low-level programming, also applying some C and Assembler. For our development task we did not require anything besides standard Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008.

The source code for bootloader cited here is solely for training purposes. Its structure is rather simple and it has the following functions:

1. Perform the loading from the address 0000:7c00 to the system memory.
2. Call the BootMain function, which was written using a high-level language.
3. Display a simple ?Hello world? message on the screen.

For detailed explanations, additional tutorial materials and schemes, please see the related article

License

Licensed under the MIT license. ? Apriorit.