> This is the result of booting in QEMU. I got a pink screen....nice. > this was the console outpu: Yes it seems the bootloader cannot access the page table and actually uses physical addresses or at least wrong addresses (it ends up writing to hardware regs). This is likely due to OpenHackware being too simple, it was just intended to boot linux and some others. Though it seems the Pegasos OF also had to be used in real mode... so I don't know. François.