@donmonii Did you fix the problem? I recently encounter the same problem.

I don't think stty would help here, but try adding quiet to the cmdline.txt line, this should suppress the boot messages. See more options at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-hide-the-boot-text.

@hostolis
Yes, vnc works, I just tried.

@TubeAlloy All good following disabling of plymouth, thanks again

@speendo Hi,

My system is built from a Raspbian Jessie image, with RetroPie (3.8) manually installed, and Kodi installed via RetroPie.

I added a text-mode menu which displays on boot, or after exiting RetroPie, Kodi, or Raspbian Lxde desktop.

I wrote a guide which may help you:

Multipurpose Raspberry Pi – Part 2: Adding a Menu to Access RetroPie, Kodi, and the Raspbian Desktop