*Concepts you may want to Google beforehand: memory offsets, pointers* The only goal of this lesson is to learn where the boot sector is stored Please open page 14 [of this document]( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/lectures/opsys/10_11/lectures/os-dev.pdf)1 and look at the figure with the memory layout. I could just go ahead and tell you that it starts at `0x7C00`, but it's better with an example. We want to print an X on screen. We will try 4 different strategies and see which ones work and why. First, we will define the X as data, with a label: ```nasm the_secret: db "X" ``` Then we will try to access `the_secret` in many different ways: 1. `mov al, the_secret` 2. `mov al, [the_secret]` 3. `mov al, the_secret + 0x7C00` 4. `mov al, 2d + 0x7C00`, where `2d` is the actual position of the X in the binary Take a look at the code and read the comments. Compile and run the code. You should see a string similar to `1[2ยข3X4X`, where the bytes following 1 and 2 are just random garbage. If you add or remove instructions, remember to compute the new offset of the X by counting the bytes, and replace `0x2d` with the new one. ----- [1] This whole tutorial is heavily inspired on that document. Please read the root-level README for more information on that.