4.1. What is PALO ?

PALO is a set of two programs, a boot loader, which is loaded by the PA-RISC firmware in memory and then executed, and a boot media management tool, which prepares and updates bootable media such as hard disk drives. The PALO boot loader executable is stored in a file called iplboot . ' IPL ' is HP jargon for Initial Program Loader . The boot media management tool is called PALO , which stands for PA/Linux LOader, just as on x86 the boot media management tool is called LILO , though it's worth mentionning that PALO doesn't usually need to be called every time you build and install a new kernel, as LILO does. PALO is strongly related to PA/Linux development. Thus, several versions has been released. The last changes are explained by the author of PALO , Paul Bame , in this mail .