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What is LILO and its uses?

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I'm basically looking for information so I can learn what LILO is. I recall trying to dual-boot Ubuntu with Windows and not being able to get into Windows. I had just wanted to get back my Windows after that. So any information to helping me learn about LILO is appreciated. Thanks!

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answered 3 Years ago tionverflow · Accepted Answer

LILO is an alternative for GRUB. It is a Linux boot Loader. Because GRUB is has more features it is commonly used with most distributions. LILO is smaller, brilliant for booting from floppy disk, but otherwise can be considered a legacy application.

Having said that LILO is still used as the default boot loader by the Slackware distro which uses the most recent release: version 24.2 which came out on November 22nd 2015.