Table of Contents

1. Motivation
2. Terminology
3. Scope and requirements

3.1 Architecture
3.2 Operating systems
3.3 Boot sources
3.4 Boot-time configuration
3.5 Convenience to the operating system
3.6 Boot modules

4. Details

4.1 OS image format
4.2 Machine state
4.3 Boot information format

5. Examples

5.1 Notes on PC
5.2 BIOS device mapping techniques

5.2.1 Data comparison technique
5.2.2 I/O restriction technique

5.3 Example OS code

5.3.1 multiboot.h
5.3.2 boot.S
5.3.3 kernel.c
5.3.4 Other Multiboot kernels

5.4 Example boot loader code

Index