jtd wrote:
Using sarge with 2.6.17-3 and ntfs rw. No problem except when doze does somthing wierd. On the next linux boot the ntfs mount will bomb. fsck the ntfs partition (invariably some cross linked files) and everything will work normally. note linux never did anyhing since the last boot to the ntfs partition. I notice this behavioue very often on systems with one of the commercial AV crap installed. In the most recent case it was brontok something, which mangles the fat (whatever) entries and was "cleaned" by the av program. Doze continues to work across reboots until u boot into linux, then the "unable to mount ntfs" error.
It was a linux problem. I interrupted the linux loading sequence with the 3 finger salute and it gave the message that it was rebooting but XP couldn't go further beyond the login screen. Before that I have used XP a few times even after installing etch. I use AVG which is quite stable. The av program in the above case may have cleaned an infected fs. My system is clean as I use it with caution.
I faced a similar problem earlier when I had Freespire installed but was able to recover the NTFS partition just by a few reboots into XP. This time it was a big bang. Anyway I clean-reinstalled the system today. Only updates need to be done now.