Hi, For the archives, I just managed to create a bochs image for Hurd.
I used [1] and [2], altough [2] proved more helpful. Some details which were not clear in both articles : - "grub floppies" can be found in the grub-disk debian package. If you one of those, it would be even easier to install grub on the disk. - I didn't understood the "Failed to open plex86 device." bochs message. I just told bochs to "cont" and it worked. - To set the floppy as boot device, just modify your bochsrc so that you have : floppya: 1_44=pathtoyourfloppy.img, status=inserted boot: floppy Since the tarball I found on ftp.gnuab.org was broken, I downloaded the K5 CD1 and extracted the tarball from it. The tarball from the mini-iso should work as well. However, I then failed to native-install, because of an emulation problem in bochs which seems to apear with coreutils > 4.8 (lots of "cp: memory exhausted"). This bug is described in [3] and [4]. After compiling bochs from the CVS, it worked (I was previously using bochs 2.1pre3-1 from debian). Then, everything went fine. [1] http://www.asyd.net/docs/hurd/bochs-hurd.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2003/debian-hurd-200303/msg00065.html [3] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=881984&group_id=12580&atid=112580 [4] http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=996183&forum_id=39592 Lucas
