Thanks for the reply. Apparently, I guess the problem was that my images were
not complete. I tried a trisquel_8.0 live cd image and it did not boot, but I
now tried the netinstall image that I have and it boots to grub normally. I
downloaded the debian-hurd preinstalled image for 2020 with
The qemu package got another security update recently, but it still seemed to
work for me. Is it just old images that don't work or do newly created images
also fail? Can you still load CD live images? Are you using bare Qemu on the
command line or are you using something like