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LILO (bootloader)

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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.
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as the default boot loader. Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers.
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Fleischli, Jason; Eranian, Stephane (19 October 2009), "How to netboot using ELILO",
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Siever, Ellen; Figgins, Stephen; Love, Robert; Robbins, Arnold (2009-09-19).
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File found in the source code used as documentation. Possible to obtain via
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on the computer. As of 2009, most distributions had switched to
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hardware, ELILO is one of the available bootloaders.
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LILO (boot loader)

Developer(s)
Werner Almesberger
Final release
Repository
salsa.debian.org/joowie-guest/upstream_lilo
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Type
Bootloader
License
BSD-3-Clause
www.joonet.de/lilo/
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boot loader
Linux
Linux distributions
loadlin
DOS
GRUB
Developer(s)
HP
Stable release
Repository
salsa.debian.org/joowie-guest/upstream_lilo
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Type
Bootloader
License
GPL-2.0-or-later

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