From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Message-Id: <200305011055.h41Atw9w000174@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Bootsector corruption
To: Dominik.Strasser@t-online.de (Dominik Strasser)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:55:58 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3EB0FA98.2080508@t-online.de> from "Dominik Strasser" at May 01, 2003 12:44:40 PM
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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.

John.
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