rust-osdev/bootloader

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An experimental pure-Rust x86 bootloader

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Indexed issues: 82

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
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Beginner labels: help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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82 open issues indexed

BIOS: panic on unknown E820 region type violates ACPI §15 (Table 15-374) Open

help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#581 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2026
No boot on real hardware Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#573 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Feature: add multiprocessing support like limine Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#555 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2026
Refactor: Improve UEFI GOP Mode Selection Logic and Configuration Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#534 · Opened Jan 20, 2026
ASLR with dynamic physical memory mapping causes panic Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#525 · Opened Nov 30, 2025
Use VGA text instead of framebuffer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#514 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2025
L4 inaccessible without bootloader provided virtual offset Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#513 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Kernel loading Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#505 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2025
Any advice on feature unification when using bootloader in workspace Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#498 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2025
Add detailed documentation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#488 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Question on second stage Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#481 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 12, 2025
Use huge L3 page table entries to offset map the entire physical memory? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#472 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 16, 2024
looks possible to use std::fs::File::write_all Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#455 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2024
add TextBuffer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#452 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2024
Does it allow to disable virtual memory? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#450 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 9, 2024
`No space left on device` for UEFI image with large kernel image, fixed by increasing FAT padding Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#438 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Debug why `Rsdp::search_for_on_bios` is optimized to `ud2` Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#425 · 8 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2024
Hang during release build with UEFI Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#412 · Opened Jan 22, 2024
Memory use during build Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#404 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2023
Loading kernel is very slow Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#403 · 8 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2023
Writing to the framebuffer is slow on bare metal Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#401 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2023
Boot prcess gets sometimes stuck at "TRACE: exiting boot services" when using Uefi and qemu Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#400 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2023
Running kernel in the browser via v86 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#393 · Opened Sep 13, 2023
Mapping the kernel's own debug symbols Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#392 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 8, 2023
Documentation on FrameBufferInfo (and related) is too unspecific. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#383 · Opened Jul 4, 2023
Struggling to get function kernel running Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#376 · 2 comments · Opened May 29, 2023
PVH header + chain load a custom stage 2.5? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#371 · Opened May 7, 2023
Make the FrameBufferWriter and logger in to a separate crate so it can be reused by a kernel for quick start? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#367 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 20, 2023
where to learn this ,i want some suggestions Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#363 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 7, 2023
ovmf-prebuilt v0.1.0-alpha.1 doesn't compile Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#361 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 29, 2023
build-std with bindeps Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#356 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 17, 2023
Dependency compilation fail Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#355 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2023
BIOS stage 2 subtract overflows Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#354 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2023
Support for global allocator Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#352 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2023
Potental triple fault some some devices Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#345 · Opened Feb 18, 2023
ap bringup util Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#343 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2023
How to test after migration from 0.9.x Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#330 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2023
Bootloader marks frames used for bootloader page tables as reserved Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#318 · Opened Jan 6, 2023
UEFI boot should provide runtime services to the kernel Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#312 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 4, 2023
Testing significantly slows down with more tests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#310 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 4, 2023
Unit test improvements Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#305 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 3, 2023
Support for other architectures Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#299 · 12 comments · Opened Dec 20, 2022
BIOS booting: Consider framebuffer config of kernel ELF Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#281 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 13, 2022
Floppy image boot fails on virtual box 7.0.2 with "No support for int13h extensions" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#273 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 22, 2022
[Question] How do you make the MBR not have ELF headers? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#272 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 18, 2022
better handling of very large memory maps Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#259 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 20, 2022
Examples run very slow in Apple M1 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#257 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2022
No serial print Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#246 · 10 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2022
plans for supporting aarch64 architecture Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#242 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2022
don't leave parts of the bootloader in the kernel's address space Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-osdev/bootloader#239 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2022

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