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post	[DRAFT] Rust OS Part 1: Booting

Fortunately there is a bootloader standard: the Multiboot Specification. So our kernel just needs to indicate that it supports Multiboot and every Multiboot-compliant bootloader can boot it. We will use the GRUB 2 bootloader together with the Multiboot 2 specification. So let's begin!

To indicate our Multiboot 2 support to the bootloader, our kernel must contain a Multiboot Header, which has the following format:

Field	Size in byte
magic number	4

Offset	Type	Field Name
0	u32	magic
4	u32	architecture
8	u32	header_length
12	u32	checksum
16-XX		tags