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Enko



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Enko 30 May 2007, 19:19
Hello, I have a little o a big problem settingup the protected mode.
First I run my bootloeader that make a raw read of the 2nd sector of the floppy, write's it to 0x1000:0000 and then jumps to this address, the main kernel.
The problem is than I can't switch to protected mode from my kernel, I've spend aboute 3 days reading stuff but I still can't get it. The examples in this forum are some way different because in on, the bootloeader switch to the protected mode, and in other, it is a .com file.

This is the code, its located at 0x1000:0000

Code:
jmp       real_mode      
global_descriptor_table:
null_descriptor:        db      0x00,0x00, 0x00,0x00, 0x00,0x00, 0x00,0x00
system_code:  db      0xFF,0xFF, 0x00,0x00, 0x01,0x9A, 0x00,0xCF
system_data:  db      0xFF,0xFF, 0x00,0x00, 0x01,0x92, 0x00,0xCF
system_linear:        db      0xFF,0xFF, 0x00,0x00, 0x00,0x92, 0x00,0xCF
global_descriptor_end:
gdtr:
       dw      global_descriptor_end - global_descriptor_table -1
  dd      global_descriptor_table
real_mode:
   mov     ax, cs
      mov     ds, ax
      mov     es, ax
      
    cli
 lgdt    [gdtr]
      mov     eax, cr0
    inc     ax
  mov     cr0, eax
    jmp     0x8:protected_mode
use32
protected_mode:
      mov   ax,0x10 
      mov   ds,ax
 mov   ss,ax
 mov   ax,0x18
       mov   es,ax
 mov   byte [es:0xB8010], "!"
forever:
  jmp     forever
    

Any kind of tip will be very apritiated. Thanks. Wink
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mikegonta 31 May 2007, 02:30
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Enko



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Enko 31 May 2007, 19:20
Thanks for tips.
I modified the code, now its turn the protected mode in the boot loeader and works
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