How to get rid of this weird boot screen?

skr1b

Can someone please help me with getting rid of this boot screen? I must have done something because it was never like this or this big of text. Thanks

mitu

That's the RPI boot loader screen, did you update your RPI boot EEPROM ? Are you using an external disc/USB stick for your system ?

skr1b

@mitu I might have updated it? Not 100% sure. Any way to change it now?
No not booting up from a usb or anything. Just from my sd card.

mitu

The bootloader screen should just be a flash at start-up, does it stay longer for you when you boot ? Without downgrading the EEPROM, ~~I don't recall any options to configure the boot loader (they're listed here).~~

EDIT: Actually, you might choose to use the DISABLE_HDMI option to hide the diagnostics screen, see here.

skr1b

@mitu thanks , I will try this out and report back. Appreciate it.

zerojay

Just remember that if you disable all the bootup text like this, you won't be able to tell what's wrong when something stops working, so I really highly would discourage people from doing so.

Clyde

@zerojay As long as the system boots up, one can still check the logs for errors. And if it doesn't, re-enabling the boot texts would be only one part of an overall process that requires more knowledge and effort than the average layman possesses. So, although caution is generally advisable, I don't see so much potential harm in hiding the texts. That said, I'd warn people who want to do that and let them decide if it's worth the risks.

skr1b

@mitu Can you help me understand how to do this first and last step? Do i do this via WinSCP or in runcommand? Need some guidance please

Copy the EEPROM image of interest from /lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/ to pieeprom.bin
rpi-eeprom-config pieeprom.bin > bootconf.txt

last step) Apply the configuration change to the EEPROM image file
rpi-eeprom-config --out pieeprom-new.bin --config bootconf.txt pieeprom.bin

mitu

You'll need to use Putty or another SSH client to log in remotely to your Pi and execute those commands from the command line. If you're not familiar with the command line or a text editor, I'd advise to use something like RPI EEPROM Manager which takes care of editing the configuration for you.

skr1b

@mitu what exactly do i type into the command line is where i am confused

EDIT: I am now trying to use that "RPI EEPROM MANGER" and maybe this will be easier. Where do I extract this file to? I have it on my desktop but its not finding it " chmod: cannont access 'rpi-eeprom-mgr' : No such file or directory"

mitu

@skr1b said in How to get rid of this weird boot screen?:

I have it on my desktop but its not finding it " chmod: cannont access 'rpi-eeprom-mgr' : No such file or directory"

You need to be in the folder where rpi-eeprom-mgr is unpacked for the command to work. From the command line you use cd <path_to_rpi_eeprom_mgr> to change to that folder before issuing the chmod command.

skr1b

@mitu so sorry man im not getting this fully. I really appreciate your help. Here is the error i am getting when i put that in the command line.

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

mitu

What is the exact command you're executing ? You've only posted the error.

skr1b

@mitu

cd Desktop

chmod + x rpi-eeprom-mgr

Yobiwan

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mitu

@skr1b said in How to get rid of this weird boot screen?:

chmod + x rpi-eeprom-mgr

It probably needs to be

chmod +x rpi-eeprom-mgr