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Indeed, Slackware still defaults to LILO/eLILO and it works perfectly fine on modern hardware, older hardware from LILO's heyday should be no issue at all. I s
by morganvachon 5y ago
Indeed, Slackware still defaults to LILO/eLILO and it works perfectly fine on modern hardware, older hardware from LILO's heyday should be no issue at all.
I still hang on to a PIII based Dell Latitude laptop from 2001 and Slackware -current runs surprisingly well on it (along with BeOS 5.1 from my original disc, QNX RTOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and a few other obscure OSes from its generation to today).
- mattl 5y agoAll of those booting on one machine?
- morganvachon 5y agoSwapping hard drives, yes. Slackware boots on the original Windows 98 hard drive alongside Windows, and I have two other drives. One has BeOS 5.1, the other is my test drive I use to try out other OSes (NetBSD is on it right now if I remember correctly, but it hangs during boot sometimes). PATA laptop drives are getting scarce but I do have a PATA-SD adapter lying about that works in a few OSes and I have no shortage of SD cards due to my Raspberry Pi addiction.
- xianwen 5y agoSome modern laptops support only UEFI booting, when booting from internal hard drive. Does LILO/eLILO support UEFI booting?
- morganvachon 5y agoYes, eLILO was made for this purpose. I still prefer it to GRUB, though EFISTUB is an option as well for those who don't want or need either, as long as your particular UEFI supports it.
- nousermane 5y agoYes. "e" in "eLILO" stands for "EFI". But then (U)EFI is an OS in itself, you can boot Linux directly from it, no bootloader needed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFISTUB https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFISTUB
- mwcampbell 5y ago> But then (U)EFI is an OS in itself Would it be accurate to describe (U)EFI as being like MS-DOS (i.e. single-tasking), but running in protected mode?
- my123 5y agoIndeed, UEFI is the modern DOS.
- larvaetron 5y agoUEFI technically isn't single-tasking, it has a task scheduler.