Re: Bootsector corruption

[John Bradford]

> I experience the following problem which occurs randomly.
> 
> After a reboot, the Bootsector is often corrupted. The errors reported 
> by lilo differ.
> Today I had 99 (invalid second stage index sector).
> The problem occurs both on cold and on warm boots.
> 
> Re-installing lilo helps (until the next corruption).

Doesn't LILO try to write to the boot sector using the BIOS, during boot?

Maybe you have a hardware problem that is causing that write to fail,
but actual usage of the disk under Linux, (not via the BIOS), is
working fine.

John.