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Add to SafariWhen comparing LILO vs rEFInd, the Slant community recommends rEFInd for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux bootloaders?” rEFInd is ranked 1st while LILO is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose rEFInd is:
REFInd is really good with automatically with finding your operating systems, leaving all that manual configuration as totally optional.
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Pros
Pro Supports any filesystem
LILO does not rely on the file system to locate the kernel, instead it points to the first logical sector of the kernel file. Because it practically works around the file system, it supports any file system available.
Pro Compact and fast
Pro Automatic kernel discovery
REFInd is really good with automatically with finding your operating systems, leaving all that manual configuration as totally optional.
Pro Beautiful theme support
REFInd allows easy theming with fonts, icons and backgrounds to give you a customized and beautiful graphical bootloader.
Pro EFI only
Focuses on one type of system.
Pro Text based configs
It can be configured with text files.
Pro Easy to install, easy command
Pro Hard
Cons
Con Support will be dropped on December 2015
The maintainer has announced that support for LILO will be dropped on December 2015 because of several limitations of LILO itself. Though development may again restart in the future and the maintainer is looking for people to continue the project.
Con Can only load Linux
LILO (Linux Loader) can only be used to load Linux.
Con EFI only
REFInd supports only EFI or UEFI systems which, while common on the latest systems, is a relatively new technology. BIOS-based systems are not supported.
Con Buggy mouse support
