[BITS 16] ; We need 16-bit intructions for Real mode [ORG 0x7C00] ; The BIOS loads the boot sector into memory location 0x7C00 cli ; Disable interrupts, we want to be alone xor ax, ax mov ds, ax ; Set DS-register to 0 - used by lgdt lgdt [gdt_desc] ; Load the GDT descriptor mov eax, cr0 ; Copy the contents of CR0 into EAX or eax, 1 ; Set bit 0 mov cr0, eax ; Copy the contents of EAX into CR0 jmp 08h:clear_pipe ; Jump to code segment, offset clear_pipe [BITS 32] ; We now need 32-bit instructions clear_pipe: mov ax, 10h ; Save data segment identifyer mov ds, ax ; Move a valid data segment into the data segment register mov ss, ax ; Move a valid data segment into the stack segment register mov esp, 090000h ; Move the stack pointer to 090000h mov byte [ds:0B8000h], 'P' ; Move the ASCII-code of 'P' into first video memory mov byte [ds:0B8001h], 1Bh ; Assign a color code hang: jmp hang ; Loop, self-jump gdt: ; Address for the GDT gdt_null: ; Null Segment dd 0 dd 0 gdt_code: ; Code segment, read/execute, nonconforming dw 0FFFFh dw 0 db 0 db 10011010b db 11001111b db 0 gdt_data: ; Data segment, read/write, expand down dw 0FFFFh dw 0 db 0 db 10010010b db 11001111b db 0 gdt_end: ; Used to calculate the size of the GDT gdt_desc: ; The GDT descriptor dw gdt_end - gdt - 1 ; Limit (size) dd gdt ; Address of the GDT times 510-($-$$) db 0 ; Fill up the file with zeros dw 0AA55h ; Boot sector identifyer