Feature changed by: Jeff Mahoney (jeff_mahoney) Feature #308520, revision 2 Title: Change bootloader to lilo - it just works. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Per Jessen (pjessen) Description: In light of recent discussion wrt bootloader, in particular GRUB and GRUB2, I would like to suggest an alternative: that we revert to lilo as the default and supported boot-loader. As at least two people have said, lilo just works. It is a tried and tested, file-system independent and mature boot-loader. Lilo is boring - just what we need for a stable distribution. Let me take care of the counter-arguments right away: * lilo doesn't support reiserfs' tail option. (requires that the /boot file-system is mounted with –notail). Not really much of a drawback, IMHO. Reiserfs has been slowly losing popularity, and with this tail option being a reiserfs-only feature, this is a corner case barely worth considering. * lilo is poor wrt recovery and diagnostics. Granted, it probably is. For a system to be played and experimented with, lilo might not be optimal. For a stable production system, whether a server, an office desktop or a home system, lilo does a very good job. + Discussion: + #1: Jeff Mahoney (jeff_mahoney) (2009-12-11 16:48:28) + reiserfs is losing popularity, but we expect btrfs to gain popularlity. + It has a similar design compared to reiserfs and supports tail packing. + + Additionally, with online defragmentation supported added to both ext4 + and btrfs, the static maps that lilo manages will become invalid at + random times. Having a defrag tool update the boot loader is just + stupid. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308520