Re: [SLE] XP strange behaviour after SUSE install


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From: "ferdybassi@xxxxxx" <ferdybassi@xxxxxx>
> 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?
>
> TIA,
> Ferdinando
>
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When did you install AVG? If you installed it right after Windows, but before Suse, you answered your own question....
"> - AVG Free detects some change into the
> reisers partitions or into the MBR and it just goes crazy"
Grub changes the master boot record. My father had a problem with AVG on a system a couple of years ago, he used Ranish on the boot partition, and AVG didn't like it, it saw it as a virus.

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