Describe the differences between LILO , GRUB and GRUB 2 boot loaders

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LILO vs GRUB vs GRUB2

LILO	GRUB	GRUB 2
It stands for Linux Loader	1.It stands for Grand unified bootloader	1.It stands for Grand unified bootloader version 2
LILO has no interactive command interface	2.It has interactive command interface	2.It is similar to GRUB2
LILO does not support booting from a network	3.I has support booting from a network	3. It supports booting from network
LILO only loads linux and other bootloaders	4.GRUB loads large number of Operating Systems	4.Also loads large number of Operating Systems
LILO works by loading itself into a space that will fit on the MBR	5. Grub has two stages (because its too overcomplicated to work as well, err I mean as easily as lilo). It loads stage 1 off the MBR (usually) and stage 2 out of /boot, along with its config.	5. similar to grub

GRUB vs GRUB2

GRUB	GRUB2
Grub has two configuration files namely menu.lst and grub.conf	1.Grub2 has only one main configuration file namely grub.cfg
In Grub, it is really hard for the normal user to modify the configuration	2. Grub2 is more user-friendly, Grub-mkconfig will automatically changes the configuration.
In Grub. partition number starts from 0	3. Grub2 it starts with 1
Grub uses physical and logical addresses to address the disk, it can't even read from new paritions	4. Grub2 uses UUID to identify a disk thus is more reliable. It supports LVM and RAID devices.
Can read from many partitions but not from newer partitions (LVM, RAID)	5.Supports LVM and RAID devices

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