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Expand Up @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The boot process consists of the following main stages:
first ROMs which the BIOS jumps to contains the VGA BIOS, which initializes
the display. Finally, the BIOS loads the first 512-byte sector of the chosen
boot device (let's assume a hard disk) into a specific location in memory
(`0000:07C00` in 8086 real mode), and jumps to it directly.
(`0000:7C00` in 8086 real mode), and jumps to it directly.

![A disk is a series of numbered blocks/sectors](https://manybutfinite.com/img/boot/masterBootRecord.png)

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ Here is an [interesting tutorial](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32955887/h

1. Assemble into ELF32 and include debugging information in DWARF format:
```
$ nasm -f elf32 -g -F dwarf floppy0.dbg.asm -o floppy.dbg.o
$ nasm -f elf32 -g -F dwarf floppy0.dbg.asm -o floppy0.dbg.o
```
Note the file doesn't include any information on the start address,
`0000:7c00`, we use the linker for this.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -678,10 +678,12 @@ the whole device. Here is a [useful blog post]
1. Install `grub2` on your **host** computer, if it's not already installed on
your host: [WSL 2 distributions don't include it normally]

```
host:/# dpkg -l | grep grub2
host:/# apt-get install grub2
```

1. Install `grub2 directly into the hard disk image, and ask it to use `/boot` under
1. Install `grub2` directly into the hard disk image, and ask it to use `/boot` under
the already mounted `/srv/debian` directory to hold its configuration files:
```
host:/# grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --boot-directory=/srv/debian/boot /dev/loop0
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