From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: OS: Compiled code
Date: 19 Nov 2002 08:33:25 GMT
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Aditya (surya4friends AT yahoo DOT com) wrote:
: Thanks for looking at my query.
: 1. I have DJGPP with Rhide.
: 2. My objective is to write OS starting with Bootloader.
: 3. For ASM, Netwide Assembler is used.
: 4. DJGPP produces is COEFF format.

: Now my question is
: 1. How to get Flat format? 

"ld -o bin" IIRC.

: 2. Is this (Flat format or COEFF) directly executable? 
: As it's going to be my own kernel.

Not quite. Yes, you can run it as a kernel, but first you must switch
to 32-bit protected mode. Make sure you get the entry point right,
though.

: 3. If am going wrong anywhere, can I know steps?

???


Right,

						MartinS