{{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 (2010–2015) | released = {{Start date and age|1992|6|29}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=LILO vs. GRUB |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 |website=Alioth (Debian) |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-3-Clause | discontinued = yes | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''LILO''' (Linux Loader) is a bootloader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions prior to the widespread adoption of GRUB in the early 2000s. Unlike loadlin, LILO 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 |isbn=978-0-672-31173-4 |pages=28, 33 |language=en}}</ref> As of 2009, most distributions have switched to 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 |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 |website=Debian BTS}}</ref>
== ELILO == {{Infobox software | name = elilo | screenshot = | caption = | developer = HP | operating_system = | latest_release_version = 3.16 | latest_release_date = {{start date and age|2013|03|29}} | genre = Bootloader | license = GPL-2.0-or-later | website = {{URL|sf.net/projects/elilo}} }}
For EFI-based PC hardware the now orphaned<ref>{{cite web|url=https://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 TFTP/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 CVS repository.}}</ref>
== See also == {{Portal|Free and open-source software}} * /boot/ * Comparison of bootloaders
== 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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