[NTLUG:Discuss] lilo vs grub

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Howdy,
  It had looked like distros were all moving from lilo to grub in the
last year or two.  Lately, it seems to be going back the other way.  I
installed SuSE 9.1 two weeks ago on a laptop and Mandrake 10.1 on a
desktop tonight.  They both installed lilo as the default bootloader. 
Is there some reason that lilo is making a comeback?
  At the last meeting, I talked with someone in the LIP room and he said
SuSE had installed grub for him.  So, there must be some characteristic
of my system that made SuSE choose lilo.  It works fine.  I am just
curious about what is going on and I have not found any useful
references online.
Good day,
Ralph