LILO (bootloader)

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]

LILO

Standard LILO menu
Developer(s)	Werner Almesberger (1992–1998), John Coffman (1999–2007), Joachim Wiedorn (since 2010)
Initial release	June 29, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-06-29)[1]
Final release	24.2[2] / November 22, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-11-22)
Repository	salsa.debian.org/joowie-guest/upstream_lilo
Type	Bootloader
License	BSD-3-Clause
Website	www.joonet.de/lilo/

ELILO

elilo

Developer(s)	HP
Stable release	3.16 / March 29, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-03-29)
Repository	salsa.debian.org/joowie-guest/upstream_lilo
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

• Free and open-source software portal

• /boot/
• Comparison of boot loaders