Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector
bootgpt is a char-level language model that runs from a BIOS boot sector. A 512-byte hand-written asm MBR loads an 11.5 KB int8 model from 23 following sectors and runs it in 16-bit real mode on a 386, generating fake Linux dmesg boot logs. train.py quantises to int8 with power-of-two scales, and its integer simulation matches the asm output char for char.
inference, models, trainingΒ· Added 1 Nov 2026, published 31 Oct 2026

