On 05/07/16 09:38 AM, Giovanni Gigante wrote:
Hello,
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?
Thanks
Giovanni
The big selling feature of Grub over Lilo was that it didn't need to
updated each time you changed something. That fell by the wayside with
Grub 2. Now the big selling feature is that it works with more than just
Linux.
It also has a "rescue shell" that I've never been able to do anything
useful with. When grub fails, I boot from a rescue cd instead. That way
I get a real working environment.
