How to change mount options on an install usb drive ?

Situation:
I did create an USB drive with three bootable partitions;
- one bootable volume named “Install OS X Yosemite”, created with the ‘createinstallmedia’ command
- one bootable volume named “Install OS X Mavericks”, created with the ‘createinstallmedia’ command
- one bootable volume named “Install OS X Mountain Lion”, created by restoring the /Install OS X Mountain Lion.app/Contents/Shared Support/InstallESD.dmg image within the 10.8 Installer app
Everything works fine, and I can select any of the three boot volumes in order to boot and install a computer with 10.8, 10.9 or 10.10.
Here are my two questions:
1. When booting with the Startup Manager, I can see the three boot volumes on the USB stick listed as startup options. When the first two are named “Install Yosemite” or “Install Mavericks”, the Mountain Lion one appears as “Mac OSX”. Is there a way to change this value / string ?
NB: renaming the Mountain Lion volume on the USB drive using the Finder was done, but does not change in the way the volume appears in the Startup Manager
2. When connecting the USB drive to a running OS X system, all volumes mount well, but the Mountain Lion one automatically opens a Finder window. Is there a way to change this behaviour, having the volume mounted, but preventing this Finder window to automatically open ?
Read about the 'bless' command, but I am not sure this could solve the issue, as my Install Mountain Lion drive is already bootable and working ...

I haven't had chance to test but bless looks promising…
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/2350/how-can-i-change-the-title-of-a-bo ot-image
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19183/how-to-prevent-finder-windows-fro m-automatically-popping-up-when-i-attach-a-disk
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