On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Key Schmidt <khbgschmidt(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Am 22.01.2012 21:49, schrieb JD:
>
> Dear all,
> I have a windows XP-Pro drive that was booting just fine
> on real hardware.
>
> However, While I was running Fedora 14 on a laptop,
> on which VBox is installed, I took out the windows drive
> from the other machine and connected it to the laptop
> via a USB external box.
>
> It booted just fin under VBox.
>
> But now, it will not boot by itself on the real HW machine (a desktop)
> any longer.
>
> What happens is I see the screen switch to graphics mode, then
> very very fast, some message comes out, way too fast for me to
> read, and the machine then reboots.
>
> Would appreciate some help to get to the bottom of this.
>
> Thanx,
>
> JD
>
>
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Hello,
push F8 on startup.....
Key
Sorry ... tried it many times.
Did not work.