elilo is the standard Linux boot loader for EFI-based PC hardware. It was originally developed for IA64 systems made by Hewlett Packard, but also works on standard Intel IA32 hardware with EFI support. Tux is the official Linux mascot. ... In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ... Depiction of the workings of the Extensible Firmware Interface Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is the name for a new system developed by Intel that is designed to replace the aging BIOS system used by personal computers. ... In computing, IA-64 (Instruction Architecture-64) is a 64-bit processor architecture developed in cooperation by Intel and Hewlett-Packard for processors such as Itanium and Itanium 2. ... The Hewlett-Packard Company NYSE: HPQ, commonly known as HP, is one of the worlds largest information technology corporations. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, HKEx: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is a U.S.-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... ...

elilo is likely to be the standard bootloader on any version of Linux running on Intel-based Apple Macintosh hardware, and has already been used to boot a version of Gentoo Linux. The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to 512KB. The Macintosh, or Mac, line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... For other uses, see: Gentoo (disambiguation) Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution. ...

See also

• LILO
• GRUB

LILO (LInux LOader) is a boot loader for Linux. ... Grub or GRUB can mean: a slang term for food a beetle larva that resembles a worm a distributed commercial search engine: see Grub (search engine) a number of places in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, such as: Grub, canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes, Switzerland Grub, Germany for the GNU project...

External links

• elilo homepage at SourceForge