F18 still nukes Windows XP.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf at omen.com
Sat Nov 24 03:46:48 UTC 2012


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
>
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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.

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