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+# RoBoot
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+My attempt at making a bootloader and kernel.
+
+## Bootloader
+
+The bootloader is self-written, based on articles on [the OSDev wiki](https://wiki.osdev.org/). It's a single stage, ELF-loading bootloader in the most basic way possible.
+
+More info in [the docs](./docs/bootloader.md)
+
+## Kernel
+
+The kernel is basically [the bare bones kernel from the OSDev wiki](https://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_Bones). I have implemented newlines, but otherwise it's still exactly the same...