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]
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.[8][dead link]
^"ELILO: EFI Linux Boot Loader". Retrieved 2015-07-04. 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.
^"Booting from the Network". Retrieved 2018-05-08. SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server – Installation and Administration Chapter 4. Central Software Installation and Update - 4.3. Booting from the Network
^Fleischli, Jason; Eranian, Stephane (19 October 2009), "How to netboot using ELILO", ./docs/netbooting.txt, Hewlett-Packard Co., File found in the source code used as documentation. Possible to obtain via CVS repository.