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Thanks both of you peter and brian, however, the boot protocol document saying "%rsi must hold the base address of the struct boot_params", it doesn't mention why. Maybe the document needs update to justify the reasons. I wouldn't have known it if you didn't tell me, so this shouldn't confuse anyone else. Thanks Khalid Ali