Since I'm a newbie here, I have a few of questions:

1. Where do I begin in creating a ROMmable / diskless based OS (that
said, for example, i already have it booting from a floppy thanks to
alt.os.development guys).

2. What freeware/open source tools do I need or can I use?

3. Do I need to create a custom BIOS from scratch for use with my OS?

4. Do I have to "emulate" or "simulate" a disk? (i.e. the whole disk
based startup procedure) Is disk (cd, hd, or floppy) support really
necessary?

On Jun 16, 6:10*pm, proteanthread <rt...@rtdos.com> wrote:
You begin by selecting or stating what OS is to be used and what the
target platform is. The mechanics of assembling a bootable OS in "ROM"
are 100% platform and OS-specific.

On an x86 PC architecture there will be no need whatsoever to write
your own BIOS as long as the hardware platform has some non-disk boot
device, such as a network boot ROM socket.