[Regicide]

I'm looking to start coding my own shell OS. It's not going to be complicated, I want to do it just to learn. I want it to be bootable from a floppy and then run itself. Then be able to shutdown and restart. No graphics are involved, just text. Basicly I'm going to make it a very very simple shell OS. I was wondering if there were any tutorials/books out there that explains how to code a bootable program, edit files on the hard drive, and then shutdown. This is of course in C++, and I am not a newbie.

[aolsux]

I saw one once...never was able to find it again and of course I didn't bookmark it ><...I'll let you know if I see it again though

[aolsux]

ok found it, go here: http://mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/

[Regicide]

Thanks for the website, it helps. But also I'm looking for perhaps a book that will go into detail of coding the basics of an OS like I described earlier.

[codejockey]

This may be more than you're looking for, but you couldn't go wrong with Andrew Tanenbaum's book (now a classic): Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. It is, in fact, an outline of how Minix was developed, but it includes discussions of the issues facing any O/S developer. Highly recommended -- but not for the faint of heart.

Hope this helps.

[Regicide]

Thanks, I found the book and I'll consider buying it. Just, I rather have a book that has an code along with explaination for starting the basics of a OS. Not so much code from another OS but original code, but if that kind of book doesn't exist I'll get the one you recomened