LILO

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LILO (LInux LOader) is probably the most well known bootloader around, due to the popularity of the Linux operating system. It was designed to allow Linux to multiboot and co-exist with other operating systems, such as DOS and Windows.

It was designed, for the most part, to handle Linux and its initrd's, as well as "chain-loading" other bootloaders. To the knowledge of the authors, no "custom" kernel was yet set up to be booted by LILO.

More recently, [GRUB] started to replace LILO in many IA32 Linux distributions because of its higher versatility (and support for cutom kernels...).

The LILO homepage is at http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/.

Category: ToolBootLoader

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