hiding partitions in Grub 2

[dpg77]

anyone help on how to hide a partition in grub 2.

cannot find anywhere on how to set this up.
have a test system that has.
Win XP
Vista
and had ubuntu 9.04 with grub 1

in the grub menu.lst

had

This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows XP Professional
unhide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda3
title Windows Vista
unhide (hd0,2)
hide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1



This was so win xp didn't see vista and stuff up and vista didn't see win xp
also so straight boot to both os not using linux boot loader then the stupid vista boot loader.

I cannot find any info on how to setup this in the new grub.cfg

or were to set this up.

[phillw]

All things Grub2 live at these areas ..

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1302743 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

Regards,

Phill.

[dpg77]

none of these post help all about change background pictures etc.
have not found any useful info on how to get it working. yet.
no man pages on grub 2.

Please help someone out there must have this working already.

[Eddie Wilson]

I'm also having problems hiding a backup drive from the grub 2 menu. I looked at all the info I can find but still can't come up with an answer on how to hide a partition or drive from the probing.

[drs305]

@ dpg77
I am not familiar with hiding the drives so I don't think the following would apply to you.

@ Eddie Wilson,

If all you want to do is exclude a particular partition from showing up in the menu, one solution might be buried in Grub 2 Title Tweaks. This post shows how you can change what is displayed in the menu by using scripting to hide or alter these items. Look at the 30_os-prober section.

It would take a bit of work to come up with the exact script entries, but it can be done. If I have time, I will try to experiment with it, but everyone else is encouraged to take up the challenge and present the script entry which would hide a specific partition.

Another option would be to change /usr/bin/os-prober to prevent it from looking at a particular partition.

[Eddie Wilson]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do.

[oldos2er]

Closed, necromancy.