> booting bare-metal with zero assembly is just not possible Well that makes sense on Intel anyway, the first stage bootloader has to fit into a single 512-byt

> booting bare-metal with zero assembly is just not possible Well that makes sense on Intel anyway, the first stage bootloader has to fit into a single 512-byte sector (the MBR) doesn't it? Not sure if this still true in these modern days of EFI.