When comparing BURG vs LILO, the Slant community recommends BURG for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux bootloaders?” BURG is ranked 4th while LILO is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose BURG is:
A big con is that it can show graphical menu to select your OS and there are numerous built-in themes to choose from. Also you can easily install others.
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Pros
Pro Graphical
A big con is that it can show graphical menu to select your OS and there are numerous built-in themes to choose from. Also you can easily install others.
Pro Based on GRUB
Since it's based on GRUB, it can handle everything GRUB can, which means it's pretty full-featured.
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
Cons
Con No more updates
The project seems dead and haven't had any updated since 2013.
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.