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    Help with Bootloader Error Message

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      lolkthxbai
      last edited by lolkthxbai

      My RetroPie boots up and shows a raspberry pi logo on the top left and a QR code on the top right with a bunch of text. Next it goes to black screen, then my splash screen, then some login text and finally EmulationStation. How can I get rid of that stuff? It wasn't always there but I thought I'd look into how to get rid of it now that I have some time.

      I followed the instructions in the DOCS as far as adding parameters to the cmdline.txt and config.text files in the boot partition without any luck. Here is my set up currently:

      Pi 4B (4GB)
      Linux 5.4.83-v7l+ armv7l GNU/Linux
      64GB microSD

      cmdline.txt

      console=serial0,115200 console=tty3 root=PARTUUID=45bbd4a1-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait plymouth.enable=0 quiet loglevel=3 logo.nologo consoleblank=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0
      

      config.txt

      disable_splash=1
      

      shell

      $ touch ~./hushlogin
      

      EDIT:
      The managed to take a photo of the first screen as it's booting up and I noticed on the bottom it says this:

      recovery4.elf not found (6)
      recovery.elf not found (6)
      

      From what I found here it looks like the screen is the boot loader and it's showing up because it can't find those files.

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        lolkthxbai
        last edited by

        Okay, so after some more searching I found out that the screen I'm seeing is the Raspberry Pi bootloader. I can disable it's appearance by editing it's configuration but I'm still concerned about the error message.

        Should I worry it can't find "recovery.elf" and "recovery4.elf"?

        By the way, I can still boot into RetroPie just fine play games.

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