Hi Mike, On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, mike wrote:
> https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165 > > The system had a fully installed and configured Windows 2000 Pro > environment with the DOS and NTFS partitions listed. Anti-virus > software was installed and up to date. The system was running > fine - no issues. > > I attempted to install ML 9.1 RC1. After having the graphic > installers fail (even with expert mode) I attempted a text mode > install. The text mode install was successful. As part of that > install I used the text mode DiskDrake tool to build the swap and > linux partitions and write the new boot sector to hda. > > When I rebooted the text lilo bootloader came up, and I selected > linux; then BIOS ant-vires software immediately reported a boot > sector virus. Did you resize the NTFS partition? It must update one entry, the number of sectors of the new NTFS filesystem size, in the boot sector. If the AV software doesn't prepared/coded to take into account NTFS could be resized but just "blindly" does e.g. a checksumming on the boot sector then it can report false alarm. What AV software do you use? What virus was reported? If NTFS resizing is involved then I must say I've never had any such report however with a broken boot sector checker the situation you described is imaginable. Szaka
