On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 22:46 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > On 11/23/2012 07:46 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > > > On 11/23/2012 01:10 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > >> I reinstalled XP on the test machine, then installed F16 64 bit > >> along with it. I then installed 64 bit F16 and copied the whole > >> XP partition to a disk file. Then I rebooted to XP and all > >> was well. > >> > >> Finally I installed RC1 64 bit. Now XP fails with BSOD. > > This was with an Elitegroup nforce6m-a and AMD 6000. > >> I > >> > > ******************************************************* > > I performed a similar procedure on a different machine, > > a Gigabyte GA-P%%A-UD3 with Intel I5 CPU. First installed XP, > > then 32 bit FC16, then the beta RC1. On this machine, XP > > still boots and runs after installing Fedora 18. > > > I did another experiment on the Elitegroup machine. > I reinstalled XP into a 2GB partition. XP booted and ran. I then installed > Fedora 16 and rebooted back to XP, which was still alive and well. > I rebooted to F16 and copied the XP partition to a disk file. > > I installed F18 from today's rsync. For some reason I was unable to > sudo or log in to root. I rebooted to F16 and made another copy of > the XP partition. That copy was identical to the previous copy. > > I rebooted to XP and got the same old BSOD as reported before. > > I then rebooted to F16, removed the F18 partitions, and restored the > XP partition from the disk file. I also reinstalled the F16 bootloader. > I was able to boot and run XP again. > > It appears XP doesn't like to see a F18 setup, much as an older Fedora > could not tolerate a freebsd partition's existience. I did an install alongside XP in a VM as part of 18 Beta validation (that's the pass I reported for the dualboot-with-windows test case). It worked fine. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
