Re: Any success with real hardware?

[João Pedro Malhado <phlogiston@sapo.pt>]

Hello Dennis,

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 06:30:40PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>     Neither a SATA SSD nor an old old Seagate 512Kb byte sector disk
> would work. I see GRUB just fine and then some boot messages begin and
> then bad stuff regarding a disk. Will the current img file only work on
> very specific Intel hardware from a given era?

I have run Debian hurd-i386 on different laptop models none of which
particularly recent. I have found that I usually need to set the disk settings
on the BIOS to compatibility mode, and I have always found issues when trying
AHCI mode (both with rumpdisk and in-kernel drivers)

Are you trying to use rumpdisk? For that you would need to add the noide flag on
your gnumach line on your GRUB configuration. 
https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/rump/rumpdisk/

Rather than using the pre-installed images, you may try the installer and see if
your disk is detected there.

I hope that helps somehow.
Regards,
João