Rest assured that not only XP, even 2000 did the same, and of course it did BSOD when booting, the most common being 0x0000007b "Inaccessible boot device". But

Rest assured that not only XP, even 2000 did the same, and of course it did BSOD when booting, the most common being 0x0000007b "Inaccessible boot device". But automatic reboot is a setting in the Registry, the issue is just with the default being "reboot" (I believe this was changed in XP, 2K just stayed on the BSOD by default, if I recall correctly).