Re: Hurd on bochs

[Roland McGrath]

> I had errors too with the emulated VGA card. It doesn't seem too
> important. (And maybe the errors are not VGA errors, but hardware
> detection errors that interfer with the emulated VGA card ??? The
> problem is io read from adress 0x3c0 with a length of 2 bytes. I can't
> check it, but it could be interesting to have a look at it...)

It looks like the smc9194 ethernet driver probes at this address.  Some
other drivers have that address commented out from their probe lists with a
comment about conflicts with video cards.  So try --disable-smc9194.
Or we can comment the address out from that driver.

> I have news :
> I've installed Debian GNU/Hurd H2 on bochs (using only cd 1 for the
> moment) !! (Last time, it was F2)
> 
> _ALL_ works : install, native_install, initial.sh and second.sh !!!

Sounds great!

> Here are some informations to help you

It would be nice if you gave some details about how you configured and ran
bochs, e.g. what commands you ran to build, attach your configuration
files, etc.


Thanks,
Roland