All its files are stored in the first 1024 cylinders of a drive.Offers no support for booting from a network.Does not offer an interactive command line interface.However, the development of LILO was stopped in December 2015, it has a number of features as listed below: While it loads, the word “ LILO” is displayed on the screen and each letter appears before or after a particular event has occurred. With the growing popularity and use of GRUB, which has come with numerous improvements and powerful features, LILO has become less popular among Linux users.
LILO is a simple yet powerful and stable Linux boot loader.
And notably, the name GRUB was renamed to GRUB Legacy and is not actively developed, however, it can be used for booting older systems since bug fixes are still on going.
Importantly, GRUB 2 has now replaced the GRUB. It comes with several improvements, new features and bug fixes as enhancements of the original GRUB program. GNU GRUB is a popular and probably the most used multiboot Linux boot loader available, based on the original GRUB ( GRand Unified Bootlader) which was created by Eirch Stefan Broleyn. There are several boot loaders we can install together with Linux on our systems and in this article, we shall briefly talk about a handful of the best Linux boot loaders to work with. Suggested Read: A Basic Guide to Linux Boot Process Without a boot loader, your operating system can not be loaded into memory. What is a Boot Loader?Ī boot loader is a small program stored in the MBR or GUID partition table that helps to load an operating system into memory. The MBR contains two important sets of information, one is the boot loader and two, the partition table. When you turn on your machine, immediately after POST ( Power On Self Test) is completed successfully, the BIOS locates the configured bootable media, and reads some instructions from the master boot record ( MBR) or GUID partition table which is the first 512 bytes of the bootable media.
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