firmware that runs when computer turns on:

where it gets stuff off the disks it can find:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36907/How-to-develop-your-own-Boot-Loader#_Toc231383167

This article describes the first steps in low-level programming on the example of developing of simple boot loader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record#Disk_partitioning

MBR structure

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own custom Linux system, entirely from source code. Direct link to stable version of book: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/lectures/opsys/10_11/lectures/os-dev.pdf

Coding an operating system in C and Assembly

http://www.vmware.com/

Workstation for Linux

"Programming from the Ground Up", by Jonathan Bartlett

http://cs.marlboro.edu/ courses/ fall2016/jims_tutorials/ dylanm/ Resources
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