Terminal output text during boot (in between RP and ES logo screens)
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First off I want to say that I am a HUGE fan of this project and am absolutely LOVING RetroPie on my RPi3!! Thanks to all the developers and this awesome community for this amazing project! I have been fiddling with my installation for a few weeks and tweaking it just to my liking. I don't know what I have done but now when I boot my system I get the 4 raspberry's and briefly some terminal output text, and then the RetroPie logo, and then after a bit the RP logo goes away and the terminal screen is shown again for a few seconds and then the ES logo is shown momentarily and then the main console selection screen comes on. Before, I would not have the terminal screen for a few seconds in between the RetroPie and ES log screens. It used to just go directly from the RetroPie logo screen to the ES logo screen. I am trying to figure out what would cause this behavior of showing it "dropping to terminal" momentarily in between RP and ES logo screens and what I need to do to get it back to normal. I have searched the forum and found nothing other than the tip to change boot option to TTY3 so all console output is hidden but that doesn't help (albeit there is no text) but the screen still goes black in between the RP and ES logo screens. I'm hoping I can fix this without having to reinstall RP and start over and copy all my ROMs and images, preview videos, settings, etc. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? TIA!
BTW, I am running RP 4.3 and had upgraded inline from RP 4.2 (but this behavior was there even before when I was in 4.2.
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@shareef Boot could be hanging if it is waiting on a network connection. A connection to the internet is not required to boot the Pi. It would like to connect to check the time but it's not obligatory. In the terminal run
sudo raspi-configthen choose3. Boot Optionsmake the change and reboot. It may or may not help but it does no harm to try. -
@jonnykesh that sounded promising but unfortunately it did not do the trick :(
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@shareef Damn. I actually thought I had it but didn't want to get your hopes up. So I underplayed it. Sorry.
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@shareef try adding
<bool name="SplashScreen" value="false" />to thees_settings.cfgfile. Then reboot. What happens? -
@jonnykesh That removed the ES splash screen, but the text still shows up after the RP splash screen.. so it goes from RP splash screen to terminal text to black screen (now, with that new line in es_settings.cfg) to console selection screen. I want it to behave just like it did originally: RP splash screen to ES splash screen to console selection screen.
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Here's a video of it so you can see what I'm talking about:
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I've resolved the problem and wanted to make sure to update this thread in case someone else comes across the same problem. The fix was to edit /etc/network/interfaces and set eth0 and wlan1 to static (might work to remark / remove them entirely too). I left wlan0 (built in wifi) to dhcp so I can continue using it. After these changes my system now does not show the terminal output between splash screens, it just goes directly from the retropie splash screen to the emulationstation splash screen and then the main retropie menu 👌🏼
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@shareef Thanks for sharing your solution.
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