From: "Harald Maaßen" > As a more advanced topic, LILO still has relevance (e.g. Slackware). > It is still active, provided by some distros, and mentioned as an alternative > to GRUB in the RHEL docs.
From: "Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho" > Could please point me to where in RHEL's documentation is written that > LILO is an alternative? I've checked and there never was even a LILO > package in RHEL 5 nor 6 and I could not find any reference in the > documentation [1] [2]. > Could you elaborate why LILO is relevant for LPIC-2? IMHO I really > don't see a point in writing material about it, teaching it is a waste > of precious class time and there is only Slackware that uses it as the > default boot loader. > ... > [1] > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/s1-x86-bootloader.html > [2] > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-kernel-boot-loader.html#s2-kernel-boot-loader-x86 Miguel is correct. The last Red Hat Enterprise Linux release with any x86 PC BIOS LILO option was release 4 (EL4). [1] EL4 is approaching eight (8) years old and no longer supported under standard entitlements (only Extended Lifecycle Support, ELS). LILO was never built in Koji, which means it's pre-Fedora 7. EL5 and EL6 only offer GRUB 0.97. Again, the latter has a fully patched stack (Anaconda, Parted, DM-LVM2, DM-Multipath, etc...) to support native EFI installation, booting and other storage targeting. SIDE NOTE: Only elilo (EFI lilo) [2] was built for F7-12, but EL6 (based on F12/F13) shipped with a patched GRUB 0.97 for EFI support instead. The elilo approach was required for early Intel IA-64 (Itanium) support, prior to 64-bit uEFI options in the IA-32e/EM64T (aka AMD64/x86-64) world with GRUB 0.97+patches or GRUB 2. IA-64 support in Red Hat platform products end with EL5. [1] https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/name_overview.pxt?package_name=lilo&archIdList=500&archLabelList=IA-32 [2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/search?terms=.*lilo.*&type=package&match=regexp As far as ... From: "Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho" > ... > In the past 7 years or more I don't recall having to use LILO for > anything at all. > ... It is possible to use LILO boot an absolute LBA/sector, such as DeviceMapper allocated block (e.g., DM-LVM2), whereas GRUB (v1) cannot. There are a few other cases where knowing LILO is helpful for, especially non-PC BIOS, like early IA-64 EFI. However, I would agree with yanking LILO. Unlike sysklogd, it's been out of usage for much, much longer. -- Bryan J Smith - Professional, Technical Annoyance http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
