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Some modern laptops support only UEFI booting, when booting from internal hard drive. Does LILO/eLILO support UEFI booting?

• morganvachon 5y ago
  Yes, 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 ago
  Yes. "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 ago
      Indeed, UEFI is the modern DOS.
    • larvaetron 5y ago
      UEFI technically isn't single-tasking, it has a task scheduler.