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LILO (LInux LOader) is a boot loader for Linux. In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. ...
Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ...
LILO does not depend on a specific file system, can boot an operating system (e.g. Linux kernel images) from floppy disks and hard disks. One of up to sixteen different images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record. In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ...
In computer science, the kernel is the fundamental part of an operating system. ...
In computer science, the kernel is the fundamental part of an operating system. ...
A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a circular piece of thin, flexible (i. ...
Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
In the IBM PC architecture the master boot record (MBR), or partition sector, is the 512-byte (½ kibibyte) boot sector, i. ...
At system start, only the BIOS drivers are available for LILO to access hard disks. For this reason, in very old BIOSes, the accessible area is limited to the cylinders 0 to 1023 of the first two hard disks. For later BIOSes, LILO can use 32-bit "logical block addressing" to access practically the entire storage of all the harddisks that the BIOS allows access to. BIOS, in computing, stands for basic input/output system. ...
A device driver, often called a driver for short, is a computer program that enables another program, typically, an operating system (e. ...
The word cylinder has several meanings. ...
While LILO was the de-facto bootloader for Linux distributions in the early years of Linux's popularity, it has lately become a second choice in favour of the GRUB bootloader. A Linux distribution or GNU/Linux distribution (or a distro) is a Unix-like operating system plus application software comprising the Linux kernel, the GNU operating system, assorted free software and sometimes proprietary software, all created by individuals, groups or organizations from around the world. ...
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...
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