LILO (bootloader)

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LILO
Developer(s) Werner Almesberger (1992–1998), John Coffman (1999–2007), Joachim Wiedorn (2010–2015)
Initial releaseJune 29, 1992;33 years ago (1992-06-29) [1]
Final release
24.2 [2] / November 22, 2015;9 years ago (2015-11-22)
Repository
Type Bootloader
License BSD-3-Clause
Website www.joonet.de/lilo/ OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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. [3] As of 2009, most distributions have switched to GRUB as the default boot loader. [4] Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers. [5]

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ELILO

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Developer(s) HP
Stable release
3.16 / March 29, 2013;12 years ago (2013-03-29)
Repository
Type Bootloader
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website sf.net/projects/elilo

For EFI-based PC hardware the now orphaned [6] ELILO boot loader was developed, [7] 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. [8]

It supports network booting using TFTP/DHCP. [9] [10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "LILO vs. GRUB". LWN.net. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  2. ↑ Wiedorn, Joachim (2015-11-22). "LILO Bootloader for GNU/Linux". Alioth . Archived from the original on 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  3. ↑ Pitts, David (1998). Red Hat Linux Unleashed. Sams. pp. 28, 33. ISBN   978-0-672-31173-4.
  4. ↑ Siever, Ellen; Figgins, Stephen; Love, Robert; Robbins, Arnold (2009-09-19). Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. O'Reilly Media. p. 506. ISBN   978-1-4493-7920-9.
  5. ↑ "Debian Bug report logs – #973850 lilo: Should not be included in bullseye". Debian BTS.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Chapter 24. Configuring ELILO". CentOS.org. Archived from the original on 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "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
  10. ↑ 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.

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