Any success with real hardware?

     Today I did try over and over to get the img file stuff to run
  on an old motherboard :

     https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-rs880pm-am-v-1-0

     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?

     Also I am able to boot and run inside QEMU but that is not the point
here at all. I suspect that there must be some hardware somewhere that
will provide an ethernet port and a disk and VGA and maybe even a serial
console. I would love to hear from anyone that has that sort of stuff
working.