Feature added by: Richard Bos (rbos) Feature #322318, revision 1 Title: ake it possible to exclude foreign OS' from the bootloader menu openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Richard Bos (rbos) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When a system has many OS' (Linux') installed and probe for 'foreign OS' is enabled, the bootloader menu becomes cluttered with many entries. To prevent a cluttered bootloader menu, functionality to exclude certain partitions is desired. The attached patch (etc_grub2_30_os-prober.patch) to /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober provides this functionality. The 2nd attachment (30_os-prober-exclude) can be used to test the functionality. Now YaST2/bootloader should support this, to make it work. At the bootloader options tab, there should be a possibility to list which partitions are to be excluded from the bootloader menu, for example: Partitions to be excluded from the bootloader menu [ /dev/sda1 /dev/sda4 ] Together with the attached patch, only the desired partitions will be included in the bootloader menu. Even nicer would be to show a list with OS' that can be (un)checked to be excluded from the bootloader menu: [x] Probe foreign OS [x] /dev/sda1:CentOS^release^6.2^(Final):RedHat:linux [x] /dev/sda3:openSUSE^13.1^(x86_64):SUSE:linux [x] /dev/sda4:openSUSE^12.2^(x86_64):SUSE1:linux [x] /dev/sdb6:openSUSE^13.1^(x86_64):SUSE2:linux By default all OS' are selected, and the user can deselect the partitions, he/she does not want to show up in the bootloader menu. Detailed information, including screenshot and possible patch are available in bug report: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017765#c0 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To prevent a clutter boot menu. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/322318