Create your own operating system!

Step 3 Boot!

Now, open up the debug menu, and click Start without debugging. There will be a white popup asking you various questions, but the defaults will suffice for now, so just click OK.

You should see a black console window with a lot of text. Eventually the operating system will finish booting and display "Hello world!". Congratulations, you just made an operating system! Well, okay, so it's not really an OS in the traditional sense, but it's a start.

In addition to providing the template, the Cosmos user kit installs a new Cosmos class. With this, you can do things like shutdown, reboot, and other OS-ey things.

Shutdown:

Cosmos.Sys.Deboot.Shutdown();

Reboot:

Cosmos.Sys.Deboot.Reboot();

NOTE: All the code for the OS will go under the xBoot.Execute() line of code.

Comments

[sci4me]

Alrighty, so I am trying to use Visual C# 2010 Express with the newest version of Cosmos. So it works, but when I build it, I get an error. And that's with the default code! I did add refrences to Cosmos.Hardware and all that and it still doesn't work! The error is about Cosmos.Hardware.Hardware... cant find it? Do you know of any way to fix this? If I use MS4 is 2008 Express, it works like a charm. But I want to use the newest version! Any ideas? Also, thanks for a great tutorial! It helped a lot! :)