openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Defaults to GRUB2-BLS Bootloader for New UEFI Installs

Posted by hanuca on Nov 14, 2025 3:06 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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The openSUSE project announced today that the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution has recently switched from GRUB2 to GRUB2-BLS as the default bootloader when installed via YaST in UEFI mode.

So, if you have a modern computer using UEFI (not BIOS), the next time you install openSUSE Tumbleweed, the default bootloader will be automatically set by the YaST installer to GRUB2-BLS, which is needed if you want to install the system with full disk encryption (FDE) based on systemd.

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