Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Difference between GRUB and LILO ?

GRUB:-GRAND UNIFIED BOOT LOADER
LILO:-LINUX LOADER

The differences between GRUB & LILO are

  1. LILO has no interactive command interface, whereas GRUB have.
  2. LILO does not support booting from a network, whereas GRUB supports.
  3. LILO stores information about the location of the os it can load physically on the MBR. If you change your LILO config file, you have to rewrite the LILO stage one boot loader to the MBR.
  4. LILO works by loading itself into a space that will fit on the MBR. Grub has two stages It loads stage 1 off the MBR (usually) and stage 2 out of /boot, along with it’s config.

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