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It’s finally time to put together the first and second stage bootloaders we’ve seen so far and make them work – although if you’ve been programming along with the past few installments of this series, you may already have done so. In the last few sections, we looked at the Intel 80386 processor’s protected mode and what’s required to get to it. In this part, we’ll take a short break and put everything we’ve done so far together to see it run. Might as well have a little payoff for all the work, right? This article is going to repeat all the code presented in the previous articles to see how it all goes together. You can read through it, or you can grab all the source code here. This article is part of a series on toy operating system development. View the series index