Ive been studying and learning a lot about asm, not posting on the forum because i was trying to learn about it on my own without having to ask for help every 5 minutes. but i do have a question.

I saw the boot image the (i forgot who made it) posted. what it did was booted a 320x200 image (.bmp) with 256 color to the screen . then you would press a key and it would load the kernel...

I was wondering if its possible to increase the size handling of the image and the color from 256 to say 24bit or 32bit. Basically, drawing an 800x600 32bit color image (.bmp loaded from a floppy) on the screen, and how would you do that? . thanks for the help!

Here is the problems you would have, first you would need to be in unrealmode or pmode.
Second, do some maths 800 x 600 x 4 (32bit) or 3 (24bit) = ????, it will not fit on a floppy .
Even 640x480 24bpp BMP, is 900.1 KB
So you can:
1. Forget about the fancy stuff.
2. Use GRUBS.
3. Make a ATAPI driver and load from CD.
4. Use Dex4u OS as a bootloader.

actually the reason im doing it, isnt to make a bootloader. i was just wondering how you do it, and ill probably end up using a cd anyway, like that one example you made one time did

you can pack the image, for example packing in GIF file is extremely simple