> 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.
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