Re: F18 still nukes Windows XP.

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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
<caf@xxxxxxxx> 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.

You mean "not reported" before right?
Again "got an BSOD" is the same as "got an error" ... it is useless
the BSOD has text written on it ... this text might help us to
diagnose your problem.
Can you make a photograph of that screen, file a bug and attach it there?
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