BasicOS

Simple C kernel with a bootloader. Allows you to press keys and get them echoed back to screen.

Prerequisites

You'll need at least gcc and nasm to compile and an emulator like qemu or bochs. As a debian user, you can just run setup.sh to install all required packages:

    cd /path/to/repository
    chmod +x setup.sh
    ./setup.sh

Compiling

    cd /path/to/repository
    make

which will generate a kernel.img that contains your bootable kernel image, along with bootloader.bin that is the generic bootloader image and kernel.bin that contains the actual kernel binary.

Running

The provided bochsrc file makes Bochs the easiest way to run the kernel:

    cd /path/to/repository
    bochs

You should see something like this: