Removing boot text - Pi 400

Ranma

Hi all, hoping you can help. Trying to do a fresh install of Retropie on my Pi 400. I flash the latest image just fine and boot it up. I update the whole thing then it shows me it's now version 4.8.9, All underlying packages are also updated. I figure as the last release was a couple of years ago, this is prudent but let me know it not.

Anyway - I follow my usual guides I keep to remove the boot up text, but when I do this I'm finding that I can no longer boot. I also change a couple of parameters so that the Pi runs in 720p (emulation typically works better in the past when this is set) and an overclock. Also there's a setting I change for the overscan as it's in a box onscreen until I do (usually).

I've added the files here that I've amended. Please could someone advise where I'm going wrong? All I get after these changes is a multi-coloured screen which then goes black and stays there ad infinitum. My suspicion is my guides are now outdated but I can find no other, more recent solutions. Many thanks all.

cmdline.txt

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty3 root=PARTUUID=xxxxxxxx-xx rootfstype=ext4 quiet loglevel=3 logo.nologo vt.global_cursor_default=0

config.txt

# For more options and information see
# http://rpf.io/configtxt
# Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details

# uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode
#hdmi_safe=1

# uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
# and your display can output without overscan
disable_overscan=1

# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
# goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
#overscan_left=16
#overscan_right=16
#overscan_top=16
#overscan_bottom=16

# uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus
# overscan.
#framebuffer_width=1280
#framebuffer_height=720

# uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output
#hdmi_force_hotplug=1

# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=4

# uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in
# DMT (computer monitor) modes
hdmi_drive=2

# uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or
# no display
#config_hdmi_boost=4

# uncomment for composite PAL
#sdtv_mode=2

#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default.
over_voltage=6
arm_freq=2000
v3d_freq=750

# Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces
#dtparam=i2c_arm=on
#dtparam=i2s=on
#dtparam=spi=on

# Uncomment this to enable infrared communication.
#dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=17
#dtoverlay=gpio-ir-tx,gpio_pin=18

# Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README

# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=on

[pi4]
# Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver on top of the dispmanx display stack
dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2

[all]
#dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
overscan_scale=1

mitu

Remove the oveclock and try to find the configuration for 'quiet' boot without it.

Ranma

@mitu

Thanks for replying. Will give that a go, thanks. So, the cmdline.txt is otherwise looking OK?

Ranma

@mitu

Thank you. Pointing me towards my overclock revealed the culprit. I was using my old Pi 3 commands which are not relevant to the Pi 400. Stupidly I had:

v3d_freq=750

rather than:

gpu_freq=750

Changing this fixed the boot. My thanks again.

Arrafart

@Ranma doesn't log level 0 remove all text?