help me out ?

[AlexTheGreat]

I have two files, flat binaries, that I'm trying to load off a floppy. The first (my boot sector) loads fine. This one links to the bootstrap, which is never called it seems. The program freezes someplace while calling the bootstrap, and never goes on to actually call it. Anybody wanna have a look at this ?

This is my boot sector. The way I know it's not calling the other file is that, I've put a string to be read just before ".readSector", as a test, and it didn't show. So, something is happening between "LoadBootStrap" and ".readSector" ...

        [BITS 16]
        ORG 0x7C00
	
	jmp START

	Welcome db "AlexOS",13,10,0
	Version db "CODENAME : Isabelle", 13,10, 13,10,13,10,0
	InfoMessage db "Preparing to load Second Stage",13,10,0

WriteString:
	; mov al,[si]		;; give memory address of the message to "al", which finds the letter corresponding to said address and moves it into "al", 	

				;; letter by letter
	; inc si		;; give si the address of the next letter
	lodsb			;; does what the two operations above do, in a single clock cycle
	or al,al		;; detect if al = al (which means, when al doesn't have anything else to put on)
	jz Break		;; and jump to Break section when it's done
	int 10h			;; call interrupt 10, which writes to video memory
	jmp short WriteString

Break:
	ret

LoadBootStrap:
	mov ah, 0x02      ;Read Disk Sectors
	mov al, 0x01      ;Read one sector only
	mov ch, 0x00      ;Track 0
	mov cl, 0x02      ;Sector 2
	mov dh, 0x00      ;Head 0
	mov dl, 0x00      ;Drive 0 (Floppy 1)
	mov bx, 0x2000    ;Segment 0x2000
	mov es, bx
	mov bx, 0x0000    ;Start of Segment
.readsector
	int 0x13          ;Call BIOS Read Disk Sectors function
	jc .readsector    ;If there was an error, try again

	mov ax, 0x2000    ;If there was an error, try again
	mov ds, ax

	jmp 0x2000:0x0000 ;Jump to the Bootstrap

START:
	xor ax,ax		; ax = 0
	mov ds,ax		; give Data Segment (ds) position of 0x0000 in memory

	mov ah,0Eh		; teletype mode, video driver
	mov bh,0x00		; get video page number (0 in this case)
	mov si,Welcome		; write memory address of the message into SI
	call WriteString

	mov si,Version
	call WriteString
	
	mov si,InfoMessage
	call WriteString
	
	call LoadBootStrap
	






	times 510-($-$$) db 0	; writes 0's till the end of the file
	dw 0xAA55		; end of file

Here's the file it's supposed to read :

	[BITS 16]
	ORG 0
	

	jmp start
	
	BootLoaded db "Second Stage Loading completed.",13,10,0

WriteString:
	; mov al,[si]		;; give memory address of the message to "al", which finds the letter corresponding to said address and moves it into "al", 	

				;; letter by letter
	; inc si		;; give si the address of the next letter
	lodsb			;; does what the two operations above do, in a single clock cycle
	or al,al		;; detect if al = al (which means, when al doesn't have anything else to put on)
	jz Break		;; and jump to Break section when it's done
	int 10h			;; call interrupt 10, which writes to video memory
	jmp short WriteString	;; loop this operation until it is broken

Break:
	ret			; returns control to the last function


start:
	mov si,BootLoaded	; show message of success
	call WriteString

	jmp $

[chemicalNova]

Try using something like this:

LoadBootStrap:
mov ah,02h
mov al,4
mov ch,0
mov cl,2
mov dh,0
mov dl,0
mov bx,0x1000
mov es,bx
mov bx,0x00
int 13h

I think you're reading each sector wrong.

chem

[chemicalNova]

Also:

Do you plan on making you're OS graphical? Or DOS based? I never could get mine to do much more than a small chatter bot.

If you use my way above, chances are you'll need:

jmp 0x1000:0x00

Instead of your jump. I haven't done this in a while, but it looks to me like what I said above, you are reading the sectors wrong.

chem

[AlexTheGreat]

thanks, but I got it figured out ... I was reading the sectors alright, but the second file had a problem, in which an infinite loop was occuring, so it halted. lol

Now it's working fine ... I just can,t get Pmode to work though ... grrrrrrrr

[chemicalNova]

What sort of HDD are you using? Seems a bit odd the way you did it.

Oh well, as long as it works

Pmode: Theres alot of people who post about this on another forum. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it here though :|

chem