--- Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vineet Garg wrote:
> > Hello guys..
> > Let us suppose that i have made a c program to add
> two
> > numbers and i have compiled it too. Now i want to
> run
> > this program on bare pc(means without any OS).
> Suppose
> > i want my BIOS to load this program instead of
> boot
> > loader. So how can i do that?
> >
> > Vineet Garg
>
> You can't. At least not as-is. Your program is
> compiled for a specific OS.
>
> If you write your own boot sector* (requires
> knowledge of assembler),
> then you can have the BIOS load the boot sector and
> the code can add two
> numbers. But that isn't C and therefore outside the
> scope of the group.
> AFAIK, you can't do what you want in C on Intel
> architecture...at
> least not without writing or using an OS.
>
>
> * Back in the day of the uber-geekdom, there were
> various competitions
> to see who could do the most in the least amount of
> disk space.
> _Supposedly_ someone made a Space Invaders clone
> that fit entirely
> inside a boot sector (510 bytes!). I've been
> wanting to get my hands on
> that just to have a copy of it.
>
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But GRUB boot loader is written in C language too. So
how tht program works without OS?
Vineet Garg
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