Is my computer dying?

[Jamon Camisso]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>  I'm sending this email from m1800.  Was that a "cosmic ray" event?  Do
>>I trust it, or do I keep looking for a new machine?
> 
> 
> You may have upgraded lilo at some point, and not rerun the lilo command
> to update the sector map of the upgraded files, and then on next reboot,
> things go splat badly for lilo.
> 
> Yet another reason I switched to grub some years ago.
> 

Strange thing is -- I rebooted this morning for some reason and was 
greeted with a Grub Error 17 message. Not sure what the problem is. 
Could be the 1024 cylinder thing. I wonder if it will happen again when 
I have to reboot next. Sigh.
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