*Concepts you may want to Google beforehand: interrupts, CPU registers* **Goal: Make our previously silent boot sector print some text** We will improve a bit on our infinite-loop boot sector and print something on the screen. We will raise an interrupt for this. On this example we are going to write each character of the "Hello" word into the register `al` (lower part of `ax`), the bytes `0x0e` into `ah` (the higher part of `ax`) and raise interrupt `0x10` which is a general interrupt for video services. `0x0e` on `ah` tells the video interrupt that the actual function we want to run is to 'write the contents of `al` in tty mode'. We will set tty mode only once though in the real world we cannot be sure that the contents of `ah` are constant. Some other process may run on the CPU while we are sleeping, not clean up properly and leave garbage data on `ah`. For this example we don't need to take care of that since we are the only thing running on the CPU. Our new boot sector looks like this: ```nasm mov ah, 0x0e ; tty mode mov al, 'H' int 0x10 mov al, 'e' int 0x10 mov al, 'l' int 0x10 int 0x10 ; 'l' is still on al, remember? mov al, 'o' int 0x10 jmp $ ; jump to current address = infinite loop ; padding and magic number times 510 - ($-$$) db 0 dw 0xaa55 ``` You can examine the binary data with `xxd file.bin` Anyway, you know the drill: `nasm -fbin boot_sect_hello.asm -o boot_sect_hello.bin` `qemu boot_sect_hello.bin` Your boot sector will say 'Hello' and hang on an infinite loop