Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Bootsector corruption | Date | Thu, 1 May 2003 11:55:58 +0100 (BST) |
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> 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.
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