LILO is older and less powerful. Originally LILO did not include a GUI menu choice (but did provide a text user interface). To work with LILO an administrator has many tasks to perform in addition to editing the configuration files.
GRUB is a bit easier to administer because the GRUB loader is smart enough to locate the /boot/grub/grub.conf file when booting. An administrator only needs to install GRUB once, using the "grub-install" utility. Any changes made to grub.conf will be automatically used when the system is next booted. In contrast, any changes made to lilo.conf are not read at boot time. The MBR needs to be "refreshed."
Like GRUB does, LILO has no interactive command interface and does not support booting from a network. If LILO MBR is configured correctly, the LILO system becomes unbootable. If the GRUB configuration file is configured incorrectly, it will default to the GRUB command-line interface without risking of making the system unbootable.
LILO and GRUB allows users—the root users—to boot into single-user mode. Both have a password protection feature with a difference. While GRUB allows for MD5 encrypted passwords, LILO manages only text passwords, which anyone can read from the lilo.conf file with the command cat /etc/lilo.conf.
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