tinyboot

tinyboot is a very small bootloader for i8086/i8088 CPUs

Features

Loads data from the disk at a specific address into memory

Supports i8086/i8088 CPUs

Is very tiny indeed

Prerequisites

i8086/i8088 or better CPU

1k or more RAM

A hard drive

Prerequisites (building)

Netwide Assembler (NASM)

Installing prerequisites (Debian-based distros)

$ sudo apt-get install nasm

Installing prerequisites (Arch-based distros)

$ sudo pacman -S nasm