Welcome! Nox is a hobby kernel developed by two guys with a keen interest in kernels and operating systems. This is our common project that we work on as much as time and life allows. It is most definitely not ready for any sort of real world use.
- Protected mode
- Paging (in the simpliest form)
- Interrupts
- PIT support for timing
- PS/2 keyboard
- Scan code Set 1 interpreter
- PATA read
- Terminals (multiple, text and visual)
- Threads
- User mode
- USB stack
- PATA Write support
- Networking
After building, just hit make run to test in Bochs.
make
Yes, it's that simple! Make creates a harddrive image file with the following:
- Custom MBR
- FAT16 Filesystem with a custom VBR
- A slimmed down version of the kernel acting as bootloader (BOOT.SYS)
- A 32-bit elf kernel (kernel.elf)
- Bochs (2.6.6+ recommended)
- Nasm (2.10.09+ recommended)
- mtools
- gcc (See note at the bottom of this file)
- mkdosfs
- make
The default configuration for Bochs does not enable everything required to run nox, to ensure Nox runs correctly, please configure Bochs with the following:
./configure --enable-usb --enable-x86-64 --enable-sb16 --enable-debugger --disable-debugger-gui
Note:--disable-debugger-gui is a personal preference and not required, the remaining options are all required to run the kernel. For an explanation of the available options see the Bochs documentation.
See GCC Cross-Compiler for instructions on building a cross compiler required to build this project.