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When you try to setup password protection grub2-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 reports: error: failure to read password. I assume this is because the -e switch is not passed to echo in encrypt() so the escapes can't be interpreted. However I do not know what will happen if you put a \n in the password since echo does not care if escapes are quoted or not, you need to use double backslashes.

Possible fix:
https://github.com/hlindg/yast-bootloader/commit/1a1a93f63403a39172c71ba47a10f4b7665e857f

Edit: I have not been able to test this and it may not look like the most elegant solution but it may work:
https://github.com/hlindg/yast-bootloader/commit/8cb9b00ecee301e8d356d21e55912761e0cb9869
Let echo interpret the backslashes instead of ruby using -e plus double backslashes.

Günther J. Niederwimmer reports in https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720202

On a UEFI Installation the BootMenu is missing it is not Possible to Boot Failsafe or XEN?

I mean the elilo.conf is broken created from YaST2

On a debian system I have a construct like this

//
## Elilo only supports up to 16 image definitions, so some desired
## installer configurations are commented out.
chooser=textmenu
default=Linux26
delay=20
prompt

message=boot-screens/elilo_menu.msg
f1=boot-screens/general.msg
f2=boot-screens/params.msg

image=2.6/vmlinuz
    label=Linux26
    description="Linux 2.6 [VGA console]"
    initrd=2.6/initrd.gz
    root=/dev/ram
    append="ramdisk_size=4352 --"
    read-only

image=vmlinuz
    label=Linux
    description="Linux 2.4 [VGA console]"
    initrd=initrd.gz
    root=/dev/ram
    append="ramdisk_size=13616 --"
    read-only
.....

//

This is missing also on a SLES 11 installation, I can't boot failsafe on a broken configuration from YaST2.

Reproducible: Always

This can be fixed by ensuring GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y is set in the file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Anyone else want this?

feedback from opensuse-factory

Other than some formulations and missing info this is fine and ripe for
opensuse.org/wiki and announcement on news.opensuse.org.

1. missing: What version is referenced.
   (here OSS 13.2 / YaST2 3.1.108 / Grub2 2.02~beta2)
2. referered "stage1" should be at least once named "Stage1 of Grub2"
   for enhanced clarity and disambiguenes
3. Section "Partition table" item "GPT" subitem "bios_boot partition"
   Please give additional info, or create it fully if missing.
   (First Partiton, Size, Partion.type.id) maybe a "one-click-item"
   in the Partioneer to create it, if GPT and or UEFI is selected.
4. missing: What filesystems are supported / allowed / working for
   /boot. E.g. a sentence like this:
   If Root-FS (/) is not one of [list:ext2,ext3,ext4,btrfs,...],
   /boot has to be it's own partiton of the FS-type [list:...]
   to ensure a working boot-scenario.