LILO (bootloader)

Short description: Boot loader

LILO

Standard LILO menu

Developer(s)| Werner Almesberger (1992–1998), John Coffman (1999–2007), Joachim Wiedorn (since 2010)
Final release|

24.2[1] / November 22, 2015; 10 years ago (2015-11-22)

Type| Bootloader
License| BSD-3-Clause
Website| {{{1}}}

LILO (Linux Loader) is a boot loader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions in the years after the popularity of loadlin.[when?] Today[when?], many distributions use GRUB as the default boot loader, but LILO and its variant ELILO are still in wide use. Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers.[2]

## Contents

* 1 ELILO
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading
* 5 External links

## ELILO

eliloDeveloper(s)| HP

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Stable release|

3.16 / March 29, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-03-29)

Type| Bootloader
License| GPL-2.0-or-later
Website| sf.net/projects/elilo

For EFI-based PC hardware the now orphaned[3] ELILO boot loader was developed,[4] 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.[5]

It supports network booting using TFTP/DHCP.[6][7]

## See also

* /boot/
* Comparison of boot loaders

## References

1. ↑ Wiedorn, Joachim (2015-11-22). "LILO Bootloader for GNU/Linux". https://lilo.alioth.debian.org/. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
2. ↑ "Debian Bug report logs - #973850 lilo: Should not be included in bullseye". https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973850.
3. ↑ "ELILO: EFI Linux Boot Loader". http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/. 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."
4. ↑ "Chapter 24. Configuring ELILO". http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Configuring_ELILO.html.
5. ↑ Singh, Amit (January 21, 2009), Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, Addison-Wesley Professional (published 2006), ISBN 978-0321278548, "Additions to the book."
6. ↑ "Booting from the Network". https://www.djack.com.pl/Suse9hlp/ch04s03.html. Retrieved 2018-05-08. "SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server – Installation and Administration Chapter 4. Central Software Installation and Update - 4.3. Booting from the Network"
7. ↑ Fleischli, Jason; Eranian, Stephane (19 October 2009), "How to netboot using ELILO", ./docs/netbooting.txt, "File found in the source code used as documentation. Possible to obtain via CVS repository."

## Further reading

* Bonney, Laurence (2005-08-24). "Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB: Contrast and compare these two contenders". IBM DeveloperWorks. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bootload.html. Retrieved 2009-04-26.

## External links

* `lilo(8)` – Linux Programmer's Manual – Administration and Privileged Commands
* `lilo.conf(5)` – Linux Programmer's Manual – File Formats
* PALO, PA-RISC bootloader

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