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As for initializing the processor, I've never heard of anything like that. All that I've learned so far is that it reads the first sector from a device specified in your BIOS settings and loads the code from there into 0x7c00. You definitely can load a program without an OS, though.
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Jan 4th, 2005, 3:35 PM
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if you couldnt run code with out an os then how would an os get compiled? it had to be compiled somewhere
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