MelbOs is a bootloader / operating system made from scratch with Rust.
It's pretty basic as I don't want to build a new linux, this is just for learning purposes.
The project is based on this blog and was created by Philipp Oppermann.
The project is frozen at the moment. But I intend to finish it.
This project runs on a nightly version of Rust. At least nightly 2020-07-15 is needed to compile.
To install Rust nightly run rustup update nightly --force on your terminal.
You can build with cargo build.
Or create a image with bootimage. Install it with cargo install bootimage, then run cargo bootimage.
The image can be foun in target/x86_64-melb-os/debug.
The image can be run with QEMU: cargo run.
You can also write the image to and USB stick and boot on hardware.
I recommend using Rufus.
Also, it's possible to use Linux's native tool for it:
dd if=target/x86_64-melb-os/debug/bootimage-MelbOs.bin of=/dev/FlashDriveName && sync
Where "FlashDriveName" is, obviously, the name of your flash drive.
Run man dd if you have any problems.
Simply run cargo test.
Or run cargo test --test test_name for a specific file.
Following the request of the original author this project follows the Apache 2 license.
Read the LICENSE file for more information.