External Links

This page provides links to external sites and documents that have been useful for the K-OS project.

Websites Devoted to Operating System Design and Implementation

• osdever: Random docs and tutorials
• OSDev: OS Development Wiki and forum

Development Tools, Virtualization/Emulation Environments

• VMWare: IA-32/64 virtualization
• bochs: an open-source IA-32 emulator
• Guide to building a bochs image: a method for building a bochs image for booting the K-OS kernel with the GRUB bootloader

Bootloader Documentation and Tutorials

• The GRUB bootloader
• The Multiboot standard, which GRUB uses
• Weqaar Janjua Presentation on booting an IA-32 in real- and protected-mode, including code. This introduction is imperfect, but provides some good information.l
• IBM Overview of Linux boot process

Intel Platform Documents from Intel

• Volume 1: Basic Architecture
• Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M
• Volume 2B: Instruction Set Reference, N-Z
• Volume 3A: System Programming Guide
• Volume 3B: System Programming Guide

Other PC Platform Documents

• List of BIOS Interrupts
• 80386 Programmer's Referenece Manual

Other Documents for Specific Topics

• Interrupt Descriptor Table
  • IDT Guide from ACM's "Roll Your Own OS" Guide

General Tutorials

• Bran's Kernel Tutorial: widely cited
• A local document detailing how to adapt Bran's tutorial if you are using Linux to do the development work, and if you'd like to use bochs to test