Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff.taylor@xxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
> 
> I came across a very strange problem, which I'll describe like this:
> On a new machine with Nvidia Nforce4 chipset, AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
> (dual core), and a SATA2-2 disk Windows/XP stops booting after
> _significant_ harddisk IO (as from the perspective of the HD
> LED). "Stops" means the rotating progress bar freezes after some
> time, and I#ll have to press reset.
> 
> Now what's interesting: It only happens when I had booted Linux
> before. I can only suspect that it's either related to Linux doing
> something with the SATA controller that BIOS & Windows don't undo,
> or it is the activation of the second core of the CPU that makes
> Windows freeze on boot, or whatever.
> 
> Windows event log is reporting "disk" errors after a successful boot
> then
> 
> My BIOS is completely up to date.
> 
> What makes things worse is the fact that neither hdparam nor
> smartctl seems to work with SATA (only tried 10.0). Any progress in
> thios area?
> 
> Any ideas what the reason of the problems could be, or what to do
> against it? It's bit annoying.
> 
> Please no suggestions like "remove Windows".
> 

Are you switching OSs while one or both are in hibernate/suspend?  It
seems like you should be able to do this, but I had to re-install
Windows XP four times and fix filesystem corruption on Linux from the
rescue disk twice in a 1-2 month period while switch OS during
hibernate/suspend to disk.  The problem has not happened once in the
6+ months since I starting always doing full shutdowns before
switching OS.

HTH,
  Jeffrey