Talk:LILO (bootloader)

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Elilo the 'standard' for Linux on Apple hardware?

I highly dispute this claim. The wiki suggests that elilo has been used to boot Gentoo Linux, but as someone who's been running Gentoo Linux on Intel Macs since nearly their debut and read most of the guides out there, as well as authored my own guide, I can say I've only seen people using GRUB for this purpose. I don't dispute that elilo could be used, but any suggestion that it is standard is unsupported, and speculation that it might become standard should be removed without an expert opinion. You can see that perhaps the two most commonly used sources presently on the web for Gentoo on MacBooks only mention grub and not elilo: Gentoo Wiki and A user's personal page. In short, the note that the section needs to cite sources really, to me, reads that the information needs to be removed until it can be supported by any facts. Suggest to change the wording such that elilo could be used for this purpose rather than it is any kind of standard, which it is clearly not at least in Gentoo! I would go as far as to advocate that we explicitly write that elilo is in fact *not* the standard for Linux on Macs. How to cite this is unclear, but googling "linux macbook elilo" gets 9,000 results and "linux macbook grub" returns over 2 million hits. This is probably in consequence of the rEFIt free software. In fact, the first page I can google up in reference to elilo on Mac hardware indicates that the elilo source code needs to be patched for it to work. This is probably not the case now, but I was never aware of such a thing with grub! DAID (talk) 20:35, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding

+++lilo+++ - A freeloader by the same name.

... is that really necessary? What makes ++++lilo+++ sufficiently noteworthy to warrant mention in this article? (Rob Levin as the founder of FreeNode is noteworthy but some "freeloader" or "poser" or "imposter" with a confusingly similar (perhaps intentionally deceptively similar) nick on IRC doesn't belong in a Wikipedia entry.

Image

Can LILO boot Windows directly like in the image, or is it like GRUB where you have to chain-load? Bayberrylane 22:28, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i'm 99% sure it chain loads to the boot sector of the windows primary partition. doesn't stop the tool doing the configuration calling the entry windows ofc. Plugwash 09:31, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I only use LILO and it boots Windows without problem. Because of this, I want a tool to protect and preserve the LILO configuration file, when I migrate to Grub. --Mac (talk) 09:02, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Migration tool

Is there any migration tool (for configuration files ) from LILO (Lilo.conf) to Grub (menu.lst) ?. --Mac (talk) 08:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bad home URL

The URL at dyndns seems to be not longer hosting lilo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.58.245.216 (talk) 07:45, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's been broken a long time now so I replaced it with a link to the freshmeat page for lilo. --Concernedresident's butler (talk) 14:27, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

lol @ error codes

What the hell is up with the error codes being written with smartass comments? I thought this was an encyclopedia? 72.70.146.130 (talk) 06:22, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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