Balo

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Last updated on Dec 17, 2001

BALO... is history!

Somebody (Alexei A. Frounze's) already did the job... (and very well).
He has created the "OS for Dummies Loader".
It has a small command interpreter and even a development kit ;-)
Check out this page: http://alexfru.chat.ru/epm.html

The files you need are: http://alexfru.chat.ru/programming/bootprog.zipand http://alexfru.chat.ru/programming/los4d.zip
[$ rm -r /proj/balo/*] [snif...]

What was BALO?

Balo was a "raw" bootstrap loader for IBM compatible PC's (386+).
It loads an image (file) from diskette into memory and runs it.
The only (current) filesystem supported is a 12-bit FAT filesystem (used by floppies).