LILO (Linux Loader) is a bootloader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions [when?]. Unlike loadlin, it allowed booting Linux without having DOS on the computer. As of 2009, most distributions have switched to GRUB as the default boot loader. Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers.
ELILO
For EFI-based PC hardware the now orphaned4 ELILO boot loader was developed,5 originally by Hewlett-Packard for IA-64 systems, but later also for standard i386 and amd64 hardware with EFI support.
On any version of Linux running on Intel-based Apple Macintosh hardware, ELILO is one of the available bootloaders.6
It supports network booting using TFTP/DHCP.78
See also
- Free and open-source software portal
Further reading
- Bonney, Laurence (2005-08-24). "Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB: Contrast and compare these two contenders". IBM DeveloperWorks. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
External links
- Official website
- lilo(8) – Linux Programmer's Manual – Administration and Privileged Commands
- lilo.conf(5) – Linux Programmer's Manual – File Formats
- PALO, PA-RISC bootloader
References
Pitts, David (1998). Red Hat Linux Unleashed. Sams Pub. pp. 28, 33. ISBN 978-0-672-31173-4. 978-0-672-31173-4 ↩
Siever, Ellen; Figgins, Stephen; Love, Robert; Robbins, Arnold (2009-09-19). Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". p. 506. ISBN 978-1-4493-7920-9. 978-1-4493-7920-9 ↩
"Debian Bug report logs - #973850 lilo: Should not be included in bullseye". https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973850 ↩
"ELILO: EFI Linux Boot Loader". Retrieved 2015-07-04. This project is orphaned, Debian dropped it in 2014, and RH & SUSE stopped using this tree (and feeding back change) long before that so no longer interested in working on it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/ ↩
"Chapter 24. Configuring ELILO". CentOS.org. Archived from the original on 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2011-10-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20120615003825/http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Configuring_ELILO.html ↩
Singh, Amit (January 21, 2009), "Bonus Content / Miscellaneous / Test-driving Linux on an Intel-based Macintosh", Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, Addison-Wesley Professional (published 2006), ISBN 978-0321278548, archived from the original on May 28, 2022, retrieved May 8, 2018, Additions to the book. 978-0321278548 ↩
"Booting from the Network". Retrieved 2018-05-08. SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server – Installation and Administration Chapter 4. Central Software Installation and Update - 4.3. Booting from the Network https://www.djack.com.pl/Suse9hlp/ch04s03.html ↩
Fleischli, Jason; Eranian, Stephane (19 October 2009), "How to netboot using ELILO", ./docs/netbooting.txt, Hewlett-Packard Co., File found in the source code used as documentation. Possible to obtain via CVS repository. /wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System ↩