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LILO (boot Loader)
LILO (Linux Loader) is a boot loader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions in the years after the popularity of loadlin. Today, many distributions use GRUB as the default boot loader, but LILO and its variant ELILO are still in wide use. Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers. ELILO For EFI-based PC hardware the now orphaned ELILO boot loader was developed, originally by Hewlett-Packard for IA-64 systems made, 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. See also * /boot/ * Comparison of boot loaders The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available bootloaders. General information Technical information Note: The column MB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Almesberger
Werner Almesberger (born 13 August 1967) is an Austrian free software computer programmer and an open-source hardware designer/maker. He is mainly known as a Hacker (free and open source software), hacker of the Linux kernel. Contributions to Linux (Free Software, free software projects) include the LILO (boot loader), LILO boot loader, the initial RAM disk (initrd), the DOS filesystem, MS-DOS file system, much of the Asynchronous Transfer Mode, ATM code, the traffic control configurator, the UML-based simulator umlsim, and the Openmoko (a version of Linux for completely open, low-cost, high-volume phones). Involvement in the Linux kernel While a PhD student in Communications at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) he did contributions to several key pieces in the early days of the Linux kernel, in particular as developer of DOS file system, LILO (boot loader), LILO bootloader (the most used Linux bootloader during the youth of the Linux kernel project) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |