Editing LILO (bootloader)

{{short description|Boot loader}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = LILO
| screenshot             = Lilo.png
| caption                = Standard LILO menu
| developer              = [[Werner Almesberger]] (1992–1998), John Coffman (1999–2007), Joachim Wiedorn (since 2010)
| released               = {{Start date and age|1992|6|29}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=LILO vs. GRUB [LWN.net] |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/90051/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=lwn.net}}</ref>
| latest release version = 24.2<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ |title=LILO Bootloader for GNU/Linux |first=Joachim |last=Wiedorn |date=2015-11-22 |accessdate=2015-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027152258/http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ |archive-date=2017-10-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|2015|11|22}}
| genre                  = [[Bootloader]]
| license                = [[BSD licenses|BSD-3-Clause]]
| discontinued           = yes
| website                = {{Official URL}}
}}

'''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>

== ELILO ==
{{Infobox software
| name                   = elilo
| screenshot             = 
| caption                = 
| developer              = [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]]
| operating_system       = 
| latest_release_version = 3.16
| latest_release_date    = {{start date and age|2013|03|29}}
| genre                  = [[Bootloader]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]
| website                = {{URL|sf.net/projects/elilo}}
}}

For [[Extensible Firmware Interface|EFI-based]] PC hardware the now orphaned<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/|title=ELILO: EFI Linux Boot Loader|accessdate=2015-07-04|quote=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.}}</ref> '''ELILO''' boot loader was developed,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Configuring_ELILO.html|title=Chapter 24. Configuring ELILO|website=CentOS.org|access-date=2011-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615003825/http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Configuring_ELILO.html|archive-date=2012-06-15|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation|last=Singh|first=Amit|title=Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach|publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional|date=January 21, 2009|publication-date=2006|isbn=978-0321278548|section=Bonus Content / Miscellaneous / Test-driving Linux on an Intel-based Macintosh|section-url=http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/linux|quote=Additions to the book.|access-date=May 8, 2018|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528233226/http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/linux|url-status=dead}}</ref>

It supports network booting using [[Trivial File Transfer Protocol|TFTP]]/[[Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol|DHCP]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.djack.com.pl/Suse9hlp/ch04s03.html|title=Booting from the Network|accessdate=2018-05-08|quote=SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server – Installation and Administration Chapter 4. Central Software Installation and Update - 4.3. Booting from the Network}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last1=Fleischli|first1=Jason|last2=Eranian|first2=Stephane|institution=Hewlett-Packard Co.|title=How to netboot using ELILO|date=19 October 2009|work=./docs/netbooting.txt|quote=File found in the source code used as documentation. Possible to obtain via [[Concurrent Versions System|CVS]] repository.}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
* [[/boot/]]
* [[Comparison of boot loaders]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite web | title = Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB: Contrast and compare these two contenders | url = http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bootload.html | accessdate = 2009-04-26 | last = Bonney | first = Laurence | date = 2005-08-24 | publisher = IBM DeveloperWorks}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
* {{Man|8|lilo|Linux}}
* {{Man|5|lilo.conf|Linux}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070731042308/http://www.pateam.org/parisc-linux-boot/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/whatispalo.html PALO, PA-RISC bootloader]

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[[Category:Free boot loaders]]
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