I want to remove boot messages, boot logo and add a custom splash screen.
I found 2 tutorials:
https://scribles.net/customizing-boot-up-screen-on-raspberry-pi/
https://yingtongli.me/blog/2016/12/21/splash.html
First the text on top of the /boot/config.txt is confusing:
#Please ensure you edit from the DietPi-RamDisk location /DietPi/*
Does that mean i have to edit /boot/dietpi/dietpi-ramdisk?
Then adding for example ‘logo.nologo’ to /boot/cmdline.txt has no effect.
No I will say not, but you have to read or quote it totally:
#Modifcations to /boot/* files, will not be saved when powered on.
#Please ensure you edit from the DietPi-RamDisk location /DietPi/*
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/master/config.txt#L1-L2
Sure i did read it all, but i don’t get it.
So where do i edit it?
It’s depend on, if run device is booted up and running,
or not. (if you edit file with your PC outside your device)
What me personally help to see and understand this is:
root@RPi-Zero:~# ls -lah /boot/
insgesamt 21M
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2,5K Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4,0K Feb 24 17:44 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16K Okt 30 11:36 bcm2708-rpi-0-w.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16K Okt 30 11:36 bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16K Okt 30 11:36 bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15K Okt 30 11:36 bcm2708-rpi-cm.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17K Okt 30 11:36 bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18K Okt 30 11:36 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17K Okt 30 11:36 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50K Aug 11 2017 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142 Feb 19 09:32 cmdline.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2,1K Feb 24 17:01 config.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19K Aug 21 2015 COPYING.linux
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4,0K Feb 20 20:15 dietpi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 269 Feb 2 09:48 DietPi_OpenVPN_Client.ovpn
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10K Feb 24 17:01 dietpi.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2,6K Okt 30 11:36 fixup_cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,4K Okt 30 11:36 fixup.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9,5K Okt 30 11:36 fixup_db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9,5K Okt 30 11:36 fixup_x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 145 Nov 29 03:37 issue.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4,4M Okt 30 11:36 kernel7.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4,2M Okt 30 11:36 kernel.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1,5K Nov 18 2015 LICENCE.broadcom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19K Nov 29 03:37 LICENSE.oracle
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 10K Nov 29 02:21 overlays
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,0K Jan 10 13:09 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 652K Okt 30 11:36 start_cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4,8M Okt 30 11:36 start_db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2,7M Okt 30 11:36 start.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3,8M Okt 30 11:36 start_x.elf
root@RPi-Zero:~# ls -lah /DietPi/
insgesamt 24K
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 120 Feb 28 07:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4,0K Feb 24 17:44 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2,1K Feb 28 07:17 config.txt
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 920 Feb 28 18:48 dietpi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10K Feb 28 07:17 dietpi.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Feb 28 07:17 .ramdisk
root@RPi-Zero:~# df -h
Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/root 7,3G 1,3G 5,8G 18% /
devtmpfs 237M 0 237M 0% /dev
tmpfs 241M 0 241M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 241M 3,4M 238M 2% /run
tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 241M 0 241M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 20M 80K 20M 1% /var/log
tmpfs 10M 1,4M 8,7M 14% /DietPi
/dev/mmcblk0p1 41M 23M 19M 54% /boot
root@RPi-Zero:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0 179:0 0 7,4G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 41,5M 0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 7,4G 0 part /
root@RPi-Zero:~# blkid
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL="boot" UUID="CDD4-B453" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="6f0c83bc-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="72bfc10d-73ec-4d9e-a54a-1cc507ee7ed2" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="6f0c83bc-02"
/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="6f0c83bc" PTTYPE="dos"
So “not be saved when powered on” means: take the SD Card out, put it in your PC and do the modifications there.
And /DietPi/ is the RAMDisk?
Because “cd /dietpi” did not work and i only found “/boot/dietpi/DietPi-RamDisk” and from the hint in the config.txt i thought “DietPi-RamDisk” is the location to look for.
So with nano i have to edit /DietPi/config.txt ?
What about logo.nologo not working in /boot/cmdline.txt ?
No way to remove boot messages, boot logo and add a custom splash screen in DietPie?
Yes there is but it’s more difficult in Dietpi due to all the hooks it uses in the boot sequence. I have to admit I stopped using Dietpi for that reason.
However I can help you
Edit your cmdline.txt on a pc this gets around RamDisk issues.
Add the following
console=tty3 logo.nologo vt.global_cursor_default=0 quite loglevel=0 splash
If you don’t like the rainbow splash add this to config.txt
disable_splash=1
That’s going to stop all text from writing to the screen during boot. To add a splash try this link
That should get you in the right direction there are much better ways to do a splash screen I’ve learned but I can’t be sure it’s compatible with current versions of dietpi.
Hope that helps
Good luck