How to run boot loader in VMWare?
- by Asim Haroon
I am using Ubuntu as a virtual machine in VMWare.
I have used this code to write a boot loader which would write Hello world on the screen.
[BITS 16]
[ORG 0x7C00]
MOV SI, HelloString
CALL PrintString
JMP $
PrintCharacter:
MOV AH, 0x0E
MOV BH, 0x00
MOV BL, 0x07
INT 0x10
RET
PrintString:
next_character:
MOV AL, [SI]
INC SI
OR AL, AL
JZ exit_function
CALL PrintCharacter
JMP next_character
exit_function:
RET
HelloString db 'Hello World', 0
TIMES 510 - ($ - $$) db 0
DW 0xAA55
I wrote this code in the text editor in Ubuntu and saved the file as Boot.asm
Then I compiled the Boot.asm to boot.bin file by using this command
nasm -f bin -o boot.bin Boot.asm
and it didn't gave me any errors. After that I copied the boot.bin file to my usb and took it to my Windows OS. After this I burned the boot.bin file to boot.img and boot.iso files.
Then I created a new virtual machine and named it booter, when it asked for the .iso file of the OS I want to run I gave it the boot.iso file, about which I told above, then I powered on that virtual machine but it gave me this error
PXE-M0F: No boot filename received
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM
Operating System not found
Please tell me what is the main problem and how can I overcome that problem.
