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
