; Utilities to read data from the disk. Used to load the kernel ; into main memory load_disk: ; Loads 'dh' sectors from drive 'dl' (this ; register is set by the BIOS before calling ; the bootloader) into es:bx pusha push dx mov ah, 0x2 ; Perform a read operation mov al, dh ; Number of sectors mov cl, 0x2 ; 0x1 is us, so 0x2 is the first sector we want mov ch, 0x0 ; Cylinder 0 mov dh, 0x0 ; Head position is 0 too int 0x13 ; Once this returns, the data will be in es:bx jc disk_error ; If an error occurs, the carry bit is set pop dx ; The BIOS tells us how many sectors have been ; actually read. If the desired and actual value ; don't match, an error occurred cmp al, dh jne sectors_error popa ret disk_error: mov si, disk_read_error_msg call bios_print mov dh, ah ; Error code is in ah call bios_printh call bios_newline jmp disk_loop sectors_error: mov si, disk_sectors_error_msg call bios_println disk_loop: jmp $ disk_read_info: db "Booting from disk type ", 0 disk_read_error_msg: db "Read error: ", 0 disk_sectors_error_msg: db "Read error (wrong number of sectors)", 0