; since we have no stack we have to create one for the OS global loader ; this section is partly handled by nasm tolerating some minor bs MAGIC_NUMBER equ 0x1BADB002 FLAGS equ 0x0 CHECKSUM equ -MAGIC_NUMBER ; size in bytes of stack KERNEL_STACK_SIZE equ 4096 extern test_fb section .text ; align all instructions to 4 byte boundary by the x86 instruction set law align 4 ; dropping our magic and other things into memory dd MAGIC_NUMBER dd FLAGS dd CHECKSUM loader: call test_fb .loop: jmp .loop section .bss align 4 ; aligned to 4 bytes for performance kernel_stack: ; (res)erve (b)ytes x resb KERNEL_STACK_SIZE ; 4k of stack size in mem ; now we setup the stack pointer for our kernel mov esp, kernel_stack + KERNEL_STACK_SIZE