Package: bochsbios
Version: 2.8+dfsg-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: j.arunm...@proton.me

The default BIOS-bochs-latest image shipped with Debian seems to be buggy.
To reproduce:
Try running Bochs with the pre-installed disk images, like this one -
https://bochs.sourceforge.io/guestos/linux-img.tar.gz.

When you do: bochs -f bochsrc and then press C, this is
seen on screen:
bx_dbg_read_linear: physical memory read error (phy=0x0000322f3130, 
lin=0x00000000322f3130)

To fix it, if we use the BIOS-bochs-legacy image, then it works fine.
Or if we use the BIOS-bochs-latest image found in the upstream's RPM package,
then that also works - https://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.7/.

Encountered this error while trying LittleOS book - 
https://github.com/OrdoFlammae/littleosbook/discussions/20
Someone else also has faced the issue - 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1521719/bochs-cant-access-bootloader-address-0x7c00-error-physical-memory-read-error

Sorry if it is duplicate. Happy to help by providing more details.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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