GUIDE How to Hide Partitions in Boot Picker [Clover/OpenCore]

[EliteMacx86]

How to Hide Partitions in Boot Picker [Clover/OpenCore]

This guide covers hiding partitions in Boot Picker, supported by Clover and OpenCore. By following this guide, you'll be able to hide the unwanted partitions that you don't what to see in the boot picker, either Clover or OpenCore.

For Clover

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1. Mount your ESP.
2. Open your config.plist from EFI/Clover directory.
3. In the Hide Volume section, add the entries you want to hide. The entry must be the same as the name of the partition you want to hide. For example, if you want to hide the recovery partition of macOS, you need to add "Recovery HD" as an entry. Please note that if you're having more than one macOS version installed, every recovery partition will be hidden.
4. Save config.plist.

For OpenCore

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1. Mount your ESP.
2. Open your config.plist from EFI/OC directory.
3. Navigate to Misc>Security section of your config.plist.
4. Configure the Scan Policy as desired. By default, the OpenCore sample config.plist includes a value of 0x10F0103 (17,760,515) which allows the scanning of the following at boot picker:

• OC_SCAN_FILE_SYSTEM_LOCK
• OC_SCAN_DEVICE_LOCK
• OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_APFS
• OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_SATA
• OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_SASEX
• OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_SCSI
• OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_NVME

You can find the possible values listed below:

POLICY	VALUE	NOTES
OC_SCAN_FILE_SYSTEM_LOCK		Restricts scanning to only known file systems defined as part of this policy. Known file systems are defined using the prefix OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_
OC_SCAN_DEVICE_LOCK		Restricts scanning to only known device types defined as a part of this policy. Known device types are defined using the prefix OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_APFS		Allow scanning of APFS File System
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_HFS		Allow scanning of HFS (MacOS Extended Journaled) File System
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_ESP		Allow scanning of EFI System Partition File System
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_NTFS		Allow scanning of NTFS File System
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_LINUX_ROOT		Allow scanning of Linux Root File System
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_LINUX_DATA		Allow scanning of Linux Data File System
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_FS_XBOOTLDR		Allow scanning of Extended Boot Loader Partition as defined by the Boot Loader Specification
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_SATA		Allow scanning SATA Devices
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_SASEX		Allow scanning SAS and Mac NVMe Devices
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_SCSI		Allow scanning SCSI Devices
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_NVME		Allow scanning NVMe Devices
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_ATAPI		Allow scanning CD/DVD and old SATA Devices
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_USB		Allow scanning USB devices
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_FIREWIRE		Allow scanning of FireWire Devices
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_SDCARD		Allow scanning of Card Reader Devices
OC_SCAN_ALLOW_DEVICE_PCI		Allow scanning of Devices connected/installed to the PCI Bus (e.g. VIRTIO)

5. This can be further customized using "HideAuxiliary" option and you can hide all unwanted volumes. In the Misc section, enable HideAuxiliary option. This will hide all the unnecessary volumes. To show the volumes in boot picker, press Space Bar key on your keyboard and you can see all the volumes.
6. Save config.plist

 

[antialias]

Unfortunately, when I enable HideAuxiliary Option it doesn't hide NO NAME Linux partition.

 

[EliteMacx86]

Unfortunately, when I enable HideAuxiliary Option it doesn't hide NO NAME Linux partition.

You can use the ScanPolicy to achieve the same.