Blog OS (VGA Text Mode)
This repository contains the source code for the VGA Text Mode post of the Writing an OS in Rust series.
Check out the master branch for more information.
Building
You need a nightly Rust compiler. First you need to install the cargo-xbuild and bootimage tools:
cargo install cargo-xbuild bootimage
Then you can build the project by running:
cargo xbuild
To create a bootable disk image, run:
cargo bootimage
This creates a bootable disk image in the target/x86_64-blog_os/debug directory.
Please file an issue if you have any problems.
Running
You can run the disk image in QEMU through:
cargo xrun
Of course QEMU needs to be installed for this.
You can also write the image to an USB stick for booting it on a real machine. On Linux, the command for this is:
dd if=target/x86_64-blog_os/debug/bootimage-blog_os.bin of=/dev/sdX && sync
Where sdX is the device name of your USB stick. Be careful to choose the correct device name, because everything on that device is overwritten.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Note that this only applies to this git branch, other branches might be licensed differently.
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.