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From: chris@cvine--nospam--.freeserve.co.uk
On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 08:50:45 -0000 (UTC)
Alexander Grotewohl wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:57:15 +0100, Chris Vine wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:20:52 +0200 me@privacy.net wrote:
> >
> >> Aragorn wrote:
> >> > On 30.03.2022 at 16:04, me@privacy.net scribbled:
> >> >
> >> >> I have an old laptop with Windows 7 and Lubuntu 18.04. with 2G
> >> >> memory. I intend to give up Lubuntu and try Slackware instead. Can
> >> >> lilo boot Windows? Or do I have to use grub2?
> >> >
> >> > When installed in the MBR of the boot drive, LILO can boot DOS or
> >> > Windows by basically duplicating what the BIOS would do on a system
> >> > that only has DOS or Windows installed, i.e. look for the partition's
> >> > boot record, load that into RAM and pass control of the computer to
> >> > whatever code was in that boot record.
> >> >
> >> > The BIOS-installed — i.e. non-UEFI — versions of Windows still use
> >> > the old DOS mechanism for booting. Look at the documentation for
> >> > LILO on how to include a stanza for booting a DOS partition.
> >>
> >> Thank you. Meanwhile I know lilo cannot boot Windows 7. elilo could but
> >> not without EFI. So I have to use grub2.
> >
> > You have that the wrong way round. lilo can boot windows. elilo
> > cannot.
>
> I boot Windows 11 with elilo just fine ??
No you don't. elilo won't boot windows.
Something is confusing you: maybe you are using your EFI firmware's
boot menu, which has nothing to do with elilo. Possibly you have the
windows boot loader bootmgfw.efi installed as /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI and
upon elilo failing your EFI firmware happens to be one which will boot
that as a last resort. Again, that has nothing to do with elilo.
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