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'''LILO''' ('''Li'''nux '''Lo'''ader) is a [[boot loader|bootloader]] for [[Linux]] and was the default boot loader for most [[Linux distribution]]s {{When|date=December 2024}}. Unlike [[loadlin]], it allowed booting Linux without having [[DOS]] on the computer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pitts |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-SKx5mZXwMC&q=loadlin |title=Red Hat Linux Unleashed |date=1998 |publisher=Sams Pub. |isbn=978-0-672-31173-4 |pages=28, 33 |language=en}}</ref> As of 2009, most distributions have switched to [[GNU GRUB|GRUB]] as the default boot loader.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Siever |first1=Ellen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gBG7z8smAcsC&pg=PA506 |title=Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference |last2=Figgins |first2=Stephen |last3=Love |first3=Robert |last4=Robbins |first4=Arnold |date=2009-09-19 |publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |isbn=978-1-4493-7920-9 |pages=506 |language=en}}</ref> Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973850|title=Debian Bug report logs - #973850 lilo: Should not be included in bullseye}}</ref>
'''LILO''' ('''Li'''nux '''Lo'''ader) is a [[bootloader]] for [[Linux]] and was the default boot loader for most [[Linux distribution]]s {{When|date=December 2024}}. Unlike [[loadlin]], it allowed booting Linux without having [[DOS]] on the computer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pitts |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-SKx5mZXwMC&q=loadlin |title=Red Hat Linux Unleashed |date=1998 |publisher=Sams Pub. |isbn=978-0-672-31173-4 |pages=28, 33 |language=en}}</ref> As of 2009, most distributions have switched to [[GNU GRUB|GRUB]] as the default boot loader.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Siever |first1=Ellen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gBG7z8smAcsC&pg=PA506 |title=Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference |last2=Figgins |first2=Stephen |last3=Love |first3=Robert |last4=Robbins |first4=Arnold |date=2009-09-19 |publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |isbn=978-1-4493-7920-9 |pages=506 |language=en}}</ref> Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973850|title=Debian Bug report logs - #973850 lilo: Should not be included in bullseye}}</ref>


== ELILO ==
== ELILO ==
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== References ==
== References ==

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LILO (Linux Loader) is a bootloader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions Template:When. Unlike loadlin, it allowed booting Linux without having DOS on the computer.[1] As of 2009, most distributions have switched to GRUB as the default boot loader.[2] Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers.[3]

ELILO

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For EFI-based PC hardware the now orphaned[4] 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.[7][8]

See also

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References

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Further reading

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External links

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