Amateur OS boot up

        The boot up of Amateur OS has under gone a
    change. The way I had originally planed to boot
    worked on the floppy but was hard to install
    and would not have worked on a hard drive..The
    old layout can be seen here.
        So I'm back to a standard boot loader, written
    from code found on Matthew Vea's web site.
    http://www.geocities.com/mvea/bootstrap.htm
        The bootstrap has been modified to load
    a loader file at 8000:0000. This loader does
    the following:

Clears the screen.
Loads a banner image.
Checks for a 486 or greater.
Sets the A20 line.
Tests the A20 line.
Sets up flat real mode.
Test real flat mode with a video write.
Loads the FAT and directory into memory.
Scans dir for kernel name.
Loads kernel to 0050:0000
Jumps to kernel.

        At this time, I have the BPB copied into the
    loader file. Since both it and the bootstrap load
    the FAT and dir into memory, it should be possible
    to read them from the loader.

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