Table of Contents

• Multiboot Specification
• 1 Introduction to Multiboot Specification
  • 1.1 The background of Multiboot Specification
  • 1.2 The target architecture
  • 1.3 The target operating systems
  • 1.4 Boot sources
  • 1.5 Configure an operating system at boot-time
  • 1.6 How to make OS development easier
  • 1.7 Boot modules
• 2 The definitions of terms used through the specification
• 3 The exact definitions of Multiboot Specification
  • 3.1 OS image format
    • 3.1.1 The layout of Multiboot header
    • 3.1.2 The magic fields of Multiboot header
    • 3.1.3 The address fields of Multiboot header
    • 3.1.4 The graphics fields of Multiboot header
  • 3.2 Machine state
  • 3.3 Boot information format
• 4 Examples
  • 4.1 Notes on PC
  • 4.2 BIOS device mapping techniques
    • 4.2.1 Data comparison technique
    • 4.2.2 I/O restriction technique
  • 4.3 Example OS code
    • 4.3.1 multiboot.h
    • 4.3.2 boot.S
    • 4.3.3 kernel.c
    • 4.3.4 Other Multiboot kernels
  • 4.4 Example boot loader code
• 5 The change log of this specification
• Index