Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

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.