Remove auto login text at boot

mediamogul

I believe all the necessary additions and amendments can be found in the YouTube video below.
Also, there might be one or two more tricks here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=122813

mancity

Excellent thank you!

mancity

After following this I still get the final bit of text showing 'automatic login'. Its about 15 lines of text.

Any way of removing this?

herb_fargus

@mancity see also: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-hide-the-boot-text

mancity

Followed all these guides and it still shows the auto login text :(

Floob

When you say 15 lines of text, do you mean the contents of /etc/motd ?

mancity

I dont think so, thats a message you can edit isnt it?

I cant get it to take a screenshot at the moment, but its like the text for the auto-login script I think as it says automatic login and a few lines afterwards, just before it shows the Emulation Station slpash screen if you know what I mean?

EDIT - I have an image but cant see how to add a picture to this thread

Anyway it says -

raspberry: login pi (automatic login)
the process finished with the debian/ linux etc etc

Debian/ Linux comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY TO THE EXTENT etc etc etc

Do I maybe need to remove automatic login from somewhere and if so where? I know this text can be removed because ive watched YouTube videos of Retropie boot-ups and they dont display this text.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

mancity

Removed all text from the 'motd' file and that has cleared half of the text, but the automatic login text and a few additional lines about when the last login still appear :(

Anyone?

mancity

So the text says -

Raspbian GNU /Linux 8 retropie tty1

any ideas?

Riverstorm

I was just curious what version of Raspberry Pi & RetroPie you're using? I was just messing around and followed the steps Herb posted above. I see a black screen on boot, then the Pi cupcake logo, back to a black screen and finally ES. Man if anything is flashing between those screens on mine it's doing it awfully fast! :)

Floob

@mancity What happens if you remove the console=tty1 from /boot/cmdline.txt (or change to console=tty2)

mancity

@Floob I have it set to console=tty3 as per the guide. What's the difference between 1, 2 & 3?

Also console=tty is in cmdline.txt twice but at the beginning it doesn't have a number at the end?

I'm using a Pi B+ with latest retropie image

Riverstorm

I have the same thing console=tty twice. Here's my /boot/cmdline.txt file:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty3 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet loglevel=3 consoleblank=0 quiet loglevel=3 logo.nologo

Here's my original /boot/cmdline.txt file:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet loglevel=3 consoleblank=0

EDIT: Still my screen is clean from anything I can see on bootup. I'm running a RetroPie 3.7 on a Pi 3 with the updated script but not binaries.

mancity

@Riverstorm my only difference I think is the order of some of the comments. I might try your order tonight. Mine has console=tty3 toward the end.

Deleting both entries of console=tty makes no difference

Interestingly, I removed 'quiet' and it's stopped showing the login text 9 out of 10 times, leaving just a flashing '_' for a 2 seconds, before moving onto the Emulation Station splash screen, so now I'm really, REALLY confused haha.

On a plus note I'm learning quite abit :)

Floob

The tty is basically a text output location, by default the screen is tty1, so by changing it to tty2 for example is sending the text output to somewhere you cant see - unless you decide to switch to it. So dont remove console=tty1 just change it.

Riverstorm

When I removed console=tty1 everything was still clean for me but when I removed console=ttyAMA0,115200 I had about a half dozen lines right before the RetroPie logo screen but nowhere else. I was doing it more for comparison than anything else as it does work well on the Pi 3 vs. Mancity is using a B+ I think. I am not sure if that's the main difference because my boot is clean as a whistle.

mancity

So, just literally bought a Pi3 (B+). Put a new install of RetroPie on and added the lines "console=tty3 quiet logo.nologo" to cmdline.exe and STILL see the automatic login!

So there's no way im the only one?

ProxyCell

@mancity said in Remove auto login text at boot:

So, just literally bought a Pi3 (B+). Put a new install of RetroPie on and added the lines "console=tty3 quiet logo.nologo" to cmdline.exe and STILL see the automatic login!

So there's no way im the only one?

did you add those as new lines? I believe that file should only be 1 line in total and the "console=tty3" part should not be "added", rather you should change the existing setting

mancity

@ProxyCell
Yeah exactly that. I changed console=tty1 to 3 and then added quiet and logo.nologo directly after and the whole thing is on a single line.

I literally dont understand what I'm doing wrong I though oh maybe it's because I'm using a Pi B+ but obviously not. It's a complete fresh retropie image too which I have just downloaded and the only single change I made because I was testing was to cmdline.txt

I'm baffled what I'm doing wrong :(

mancity

Also does everyone manually remove the motd test or does that not show for them as well?