Remove auto login text at boot
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Hi everyone,
I want my retropie to display nothing at all until the retropie splash screen.
I have removed console=tty1 and added logo.nologo to cmdline.txt and now I just see the auto login text.
Any ideas how I can remove this too?
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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
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Excellent thank you!
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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?
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Followed all these guides and it still shows the auto login text :(
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When you say 15 lines of text, do you mean the contents of /etc/motd ?
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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 etcDebian/ 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 :)
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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?
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So the text says -
Raspbian GNU /Linux 8 retropie tty1
any ideas?
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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! :)
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@mancity What happens if you remove the console=tty1 from /boot/cmdline.txt (or change to console=tty2)
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@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
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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.
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@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 :)
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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.
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When I removed
console=tty1
everything was still clean for me but when I removedconsole=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. -
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?
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@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
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@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 :(
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