On Thu, Jul 7, 2016, at 10:57, Giovanni Gigante wrote: > > At the end, I decided to try the upgrade to jessie with LiLo (24.1) in > place. I thought that the probability of hitting some bug caused by the > interaction between LiLo and the upgraded distribution was less than the > probabily of causing some damage by switching the bootloader (for > example, by messing up the RAID configuration) since I've never > configured Grub before. Also, the golden heuristic of "if it ain't > broke, don't fix it", and the fact that this particular Debian upgrade > is also switching from the init scripts to systemd, so I did not want to > introduce even more changes in the boot process for the moment. > > Apparently, it worked. >
I never doubted that it would. I still use LILO with the latest jessie kernels. I maintain a web page for Debian users who use LILO, or who are thinking of switching from GRUB to LILO: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/lilo.htm I don't address the issue of software RAID though. I've never tried it. I have used LILO with hardware RAID. It works just fine. I'm using it right now as I write this. As far as LILO being unmaintained is concerned, I wouldn't be too concerned about that. I've been thinking about offering to maintain it myself. I haven't heard from Joachim lately. Maybe I'll drop him another line. The three main things I like about LILO are (1) I understand how it works, (2) it is easy to configure, and (3) it doesn't use any unallocated sectors. The main limitations to LILO's future viability, as I see it, are UEFI and GPT. LILO is heavily dependent on the traditional BIOS. Most UEFI systems have a CSM to provide a BIOS for forward compatibility, though it is often disabled by default. But some of the newest systems are starting to ship with no CSM. I won't buy one of those as long as I have a choice. And GPT is needed to break the 2 TiB disk size limit. But none of my disks are anywhere near that big. If your system has a BIOS and a traditional DOS-style partition table, there's no reason not to use LILO, unless you just don't want to. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-
