| LILO | |
| Developer: | Werner Almesberger (1992–1998), John Coffman (1999–2007), Joachim Wiedorn (since 2010) |
| Released: | [1] |
| Latest Release Version: | 24.2[2] |
| Genre: | Bootloader |
| License: | BSD-3-Clause |
| Discontinued: | yes |
LILO (Linux Loader) is a boot loader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions. Unlike loadlin, it allowed booting Linux without having DOS on the computer.[3] As of 2009, most distributions had 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]
| elilo | |
| Developer: | HP |
| Latest Release Version: | 3.16 |
| Genre: | Bootloader |
| License: | GPL-2.0-or-later |
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.
It supports network booting using TFTP/DHCP.[8]