At 12/28/05 06:19, ferdybassi@tin.it wrote:

Hi all. <snip>

My hypothesis: - AVG Free detects some change into the reisers partitions or into the MBR and it just goes crazy - SUSE 10 has some bugs into partition handling - Windows XP SP2 doesn't like that someone manages partitions after its installation

Any hints?

TIA, Ferdinando

I can't address the first two, or directly your third hypothesis, but I have a Dell laptop onto which I installed WinXP SP2 into a limited measure of the drive (35GB out of 100), and then I installed SUSE 9.3 into the remaining 65GB. I've had no problem duel (er, dual) booting and running either system--although, I've noticed now that my XP games directory is _empty_ and my ZoneAlarm installation is utterly gone. One of my tasks today is to reinstall XP and my other apps, and then I'll keep closer track of when this stuff disappears (I discount--although don't rule out--a cracker getting into my laptop, as it sits behind a separate hardware and software firewall). Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell

ferdybassi@tin.it wrote:

Hi all. I have a toshiba laptop with a 60 GB HD which I have partitioned as follows:

- hda1 14 GB NTFS Windows XP - hda5 16 GB NTFS Windows XP Data - hda6 4 GB FAT32 to share files between WinXP and SUSE - hda7 400 MB Reiser /boot - hda8 16 GB Reiser / - hda9 10 GB Reiser /home

I first installed Windows XP on its primary partition, then installed SUSE 10 and set up Grub to boot both. Now SUSE 10 can boot w/out any problem, but when I boot Windows XP I get this strange behaviour: it boots, it lets me CTRL+ALT+DEL, it lets me log in with my username/password... then it loads my desktop settings and suddenly freeze. I got "busy mouse pointer" and I can't do anything. By entering Task manager it seems that the problem is caused by AVG Free antivirus (it freezes and I can't stop it) or by ConfigFree, a Toshiba tool to easily switch between different LANs. I can't even CTRL+ALT+DEL again to reboot: I just have to press shutdown button... Never happened with SUSE 9.2... Both Windows XP and SUSE 10 are fresh installations. I just updated them, without installing any other software, except AVG antivirus

My hypothesis: - AVG Free detects some change into the reisers partitions or into the MBR and it just goes crazy - SUSE 10 has some bugs into partition handling - Windows XP SP2 doesn't like that someone manages partitions after its installation

Any hints? Confirming AVG is using the CPU power first ie open Task Manager, click on the CPU usage column until the processes are sorted in descending order. Perhaps AVG is not the culprit. You could also stop any scan as Windows starts as perhaps that is what is chewing the CPU. Then I would uninstall AVG, reboot and see if the problem occurs again. That will ascertain if AVG is the culprit.

I however do not think so as I recently uninstalled Norton AV and installed AVG on my dual boot Win XP/Suse 9.3 box and I can happily boot into either and not get 'frozen'. Perhaps the AVG installation is corrupt and therefore preferably download the file again from the AVG site, install and update it and see if the problems are still there. If so, I think a complete new installation is required ie install XP, install Suse and then install AVG on Win XP. HiH -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================