On 07/05/2016 10:10 AM, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jul 2016, Giovanni Gigante wrote:
I am preparing my system for the upgrade from wheezy to jessie.
Since ancient ages, this system has been using LILO as the bootloader,
because, long ago, it was the only bootloader that was recommended for my
setup: this machine has two SATA disks in a software RAID 1 & LVM; that is,
in /etc/lilo.conf I have:
boot=/dev/md0
root=/dev/mapper/vg00-rootlv
raid-extra-boot = mbr
My doubt is that I have read that LILO, besides being very old, is now
unmantained. However, I see that the jessie installation manual still
mentions it, so it does not seem deprecated yet. So the question is:
is there any serious reason to switch the system to GRUB before
upgrading, or can I just keep my current setup and proceed to jessie?
There's always the possibility that you'll discover a new bug with lilo
and newer kernels which no one else has seen, but that's probably fairly
unlikely.
In my experience, grub now works way more reliably than lilo ever did,
and it's worth switching. [I switched over *years* ago for precisely
this reason.] But your experience may vary.
I finally switched to Jessie (but still using SysV Init) a few months
ago. This box and its predecessors have uses lilo (and SysV Init) since
Bo was a pup. I have yet to see any real reason to switch from lilo to
grub. I have never had a problem with lilo and I like having a config
that I can directly control and understand. As Giovanni says, however,
YMMV.
Marc
