How to hide boot up messages and icons on Raspberry Pi

[Popcorn]

I just confirmed this with my RPI2. Should work the same on the RPI0.

ssh into your PI. If you have a wifi adapter, this should work from another computer on the same network:

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ssh pi@retropie.local

Default password is "raspberry" and edit the boot options

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sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt

You will see a single line with all the boot options. Scroll along and change the following making sure not to add any linebreaks:

• - Replace "console=tty1" by "console=tty3" to redirect boot messages to the third console.
  - Add "loglevel=3" to disable non-critical kernel log messages.
  - Add "logo.nologo" to the end of the line to remove the Raspberry PI logos from displaying

Press CTRL+X to exit and Y to save your changes.

Next edit the config file with the following:

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sudo nano /boot/config.txt

• - add "disable_splash=1" at the end of the file.

Press CTRL+X to exit and Y to save your changes.

There you go. When it boots up now, it will just cleanly display the Retropie screen (or Wermy's bootup video if you go with that).

[crispy_tofu]

Thanks for sharing, this will be really useful.

[dirtybeagles]

Would be helpful to post this in a video to share?

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Move topic to help forum

[Popcorn]

Would be helpful to post this in a video to share?

Yeah, this might be daunting for those not used to the command line. I can simplify it, or even better, write a script that does this all for you. I'll come back and revisit this. Thanks.

[dirtybeagles]

Would be helpful to post this in a video to share?

Yeah, this might be daunting for those not used to the command line. I can simplify it, or even better, write a script that does this all for you. I'll come back and revisit this. Thanks.

Thanks a ton for the help Popcorn. Love the name btw!

[Popcorn]

Move me to the Raspberry Pi forum please

[dirtybeagles]

Move me to the Raspberry Pi forum please

Hey popcorn, if I do this change, could I still get the bootup video of the GB logo?

[Ganreizu]

Move me to the Raspberry Pi forum please

Hey popcorn, if I do this change, could I still get the bootup video of the GB logo?

I think the GB logo video hides the bootup messages anyway. I'm about to try setting the boot video right now.

[Robots86]

Move me to the Raspberry Pi forum please

Hey popcorn, if I do this change, could I still get the bootup video of the GB logo?

I think the GB logo video hides the bootup messages anyway. I'm about to try setting the boot video right now.

Let us know how you get on I'm having trouble with this. Sometimes it will work but the majority of the time it flashes as if its trying to start but fails and i just continue to see the console text.... I cant figure out a fix