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Bootloader developer

Bootloader developer, Doing OS AND bootloader - in serious need of an assembler expert!

Aurel300	7 Aug, 2009 - 02:08 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 10 Nov, 2007 Posts: 145 Thanked: 5 times My Contributions	So, I started on developing this OS like two years ago, I´ve got plenty of code, works on windows (in C#). BUT - the problem here is that I don´t want this system be UNIX-based... seriously there is thousands of them. So I want to use my own bootloader. But of course, I´m not good at assembly... Anyone who ever developed a bootloader or has some knowledge in assembly, please post here your skills and PM me your e-mail / Skype contact. I´m not sure if this will be commercial and therefore paid, but the chance is still there. Thanks. (no code, no rules breaking...)
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RudiVisser	RE: Bootloader Developer 7 Aug, 2009 - 03:17 AM Post #2
.. does not guess solutions Joined: 5 Jun, 2009 Posts: 1,891 Thanked: 139 times Dream Kudos: 125 Expert In: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, C# My Contributions	"Works on windows"? So it's not an OS? An operating system, for obvious reasons, cannot use the .NET Framework (or any framework, standard libraries, etc). You won't be able to create a bootloader than can load a .exe/.dll file from your Windows filesystem. A bootloader loads a kernel, if you don't have one of them you don't have an operating system Furthermore a boot loader is a LOT of work, I'd suggest just using GRUB if you really have an OS.
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Core	RE: Bootloader Developer 7 Aug, 2009 - 06:03 AM Post #3
The .NET Dude Joined: 8 Dec, 2008 Posts: 3,039 Thanked: 217 times Dream Kudos: 900 Expert In: C#, VB.NET, WPF, .NET Framework My Contributions	@MageUK Microsoft Singularity (an operating system project created by Microsoft Research) was written in C# (a language .NET Framework is based on). Not entirely, of course - there are still extensive parts written in C++ (initialization and registration components) and Asm (the bootloader), but the whole system skeleton is created using C#.
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Aurel300	RE: Bootloader Developer 7 Aug, 2009 - 09:29 AM Post #4
D.I.C Head Joined: 10 Nov, 2007 Posts: 145 Thanked: 5 times My Contributions	Argh... You didn´t understand me - . - I have done some very low-level codes in C++ (sorry I wrote C#, but it´s almost the same for me ), and tested them on kidna-simulator which I made in .NET. THAT worked on Windows. The code on its own would work only with... the bootloader. Understood now? I know it is a really lot of work. And I don´t want to use GRUB, as I already said, I want to use my OWN bootloader. This post has been edited by Aurel300: 7 Aug, 2009 - 09:29 AM
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Neumann	RE: Bootloader Developer 7 Aug, 2009 - 10:38 AM Post #5
I can judge a book by its cover Joined: 8 Jul, 2009 Posts: 686 Thanked: 93 times Dream Kudos: 225 My Contributions	Nobody is going to write a bootloader for you for free.
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Aurel300	RE: Bootloader Developer 7 Aug, 2009 - 10:53 AM Post #6
D.I.C Head Joined: 10 Nov, 2007 Posts: 145 Thanked: 5 times My Contributions	I said it´s maybe (possibly {big chance}) going to be commercial.
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RudiVisser	RE: Bootloader Developer 8 Aug, 2009 - 02:25 AM Post #7
.. does not guess solutions Joined: 5 Jun, 2009 Posts: 1,891 Thanked: 139 times Dream Kudos: 125 Expert In: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, C# My Contributions	Since you don't seem to have tested it right on boot.. I would heavily suggest testing it with grub to see if it does actually boot. I can't quite believe a .NET emulator, you'd need to test it with an x86 emulator such as virtualbox or virtualpc. @core yeah but singulariity has an extensive kernel written directly to supporrt .NET's class libraries being loaded for JIT.
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Tom9729	RE: Bootloader Developer 12 Aug, 2009 - 05:11 AM Post #8
Debian ninja Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 2,143 Thanked: 53 times Dream Kudos: 425 My Contributions	Lots of links here... http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/index.ph...c=97424&hl= Also you might want to check out FreeBSD, I believe they have several different bootloaders and you would be free to use them in a commercial project...
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theSuha	RE: Bootloader Developer 8 Sep, 2009 - 04:35 AM Post #9
New D.I.C Head Joined: 21 Aug, 2009 Posts: 4	I've been considering developing a bootloader as a new years challenge for myself. Well, it's just a possibility but if I get around to it I'll let you give it a try...
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debjit625	RE: Bootloader Developer 8 Sep, 2009 - 06:08 AM Post #10
D.I.C Regular Joined: 6 Sep, 2008 Posts: 340 Thanked: 30 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	Yes you can use C# to do some low level programming for your kernel but you cant use lib of .Net and offcourse the code generated by C# will be in IL targeted to CLR so to use the hardware resource "what kernel does" you need a interpreter which will convert the IL to pure native code of the target machine(for this you will need assembly).As I see this is just useless and your OS will be slow ,so its better to use only C to make your kernel but their also you will need assembly(you can say with out assembly a OS cant be created) so learn it, it will be needed. Good Luck. This post has been edited by debjit625: 8 Sep, 2009 - 06:12 AM
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