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When the Raspberry Pi boots, a bootloader info screen (see image below) shows up for about 1 second. I was wondering how I would go about disabling this screen from appearing.

I have tried a couple of guides on how to achieve a quiet boot but seems like this screen shows up no matter what the contents of my cmdline.txt and config.txt files are.

My current file contents are:

/boot/cmdline.txt

splash quiet console=serial0,115200 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty3 loglevel=3 logo.nologo root=PARTUUID=c356f926-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait

/boot/config.txt

disable_splash=1

Photo of screen

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  • There's no point in anything involving cmdline.txt because that is for the linux kernel.
    – goldilocks ♦
    Sep 23, 2020 at 14:28
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    I recommended you should not remove it because pi is a development board and things can go wrong.
    – Ciasto piekarz
    Sep 23, 2020 at 15:11
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    Your screen shot shows a system that hasn't been able to boot from SDcard or USB device. There's no way to suppress that in just the same way that there's no way to use a system in that state.
    – Dougie
    Sep 23, 2020 at 15:31
  • The system does boot after 1 second and works as expected though. Is it possible that the SD card has been corrupted or something similar? Would a corrupt SD card cause this?
    – mhmmx
    Sep 23, 2020 at 17:15
  • Yea, something is strange here - I have not seen this screen before. I get the white "Press shift for recovery" screen and then the boot sequence starts (silent mode disabled).
    – PMF
    Sep 23, 2020 at 18:30

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I was able to solve this much more easily by calling:

sudo -E rpi-eeprom-config --edit

Adding:

DISABLE_HDMI=1

and Save

For me that works fine.

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From the Pi Website...

The bootloader EEPROM image contains an embedded configuration file to define the boot behaviour (e.g. selecting between SD, network and USB boot).

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/booteeprom.md

That splash screen can only be disabled in the config.txt located in the Bootloader in the EEPROM.

Here's the Steps i used (explained as simply as i can) to disable it.

STEP1: log into your Raspberry Pi via Terminal SSH (i used PuTTy) default login is pi .. password is raspberry

STEP2: type (or copy'n'paste) this .. vcgencmd bootloader_version to display the version and date of the bootloader you are using. eg. mine is Sep 3 2020 13:11:43

STEP3: type (or copy'n'paste) this (if your bootloader date is different to mine, then you'll need to change pieeprom-2020-09-03.bin to the date of your bootloader. format is YYYY/MM/DD)

cp /lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/beta/pieeprom-2020-09-03.bin pieeprom.bin

STEP4: type (or copy'n'paste) this .. rpi-eeprom-config pieeprom.bin > config.txt

STEP5: type (or copy'n'paste) this .. cat config.txt

STEP6: you should see something like this below ... and what you need to change is DISABLE_HDMI=0 to DISABLE_HDMI=1

[all]
BOOT_UART=0
WAKE_ON_GPIO=1
POWER_OFF_ON_HALT=0
DHCP_TIMEOUT=45000
DHCP_REQ_TIMEOUT=4000
TFTP_FILE_TIMEOUT=30000
ENABLE_SELF_UPDATE=1
DISABLE_HDMI=0
BOOT_ORDER=0xf41

STEP7: type (or copy'n'paste) this .. sudo nano config.txt

STEP8: edit DISABLE_HDMI=0 to DISABLE_HDMI=1 .. then on your keyboard press CTRL O, then ENTER and then CTRL X

STEP9: type (or copy'n'paste) this .. rpi-eeprom-config --out pieeprom-out.bin --config config.txt pieeprom.bin

STEP10: type (or copy'n'paste) this .. sudo rpi-eeprom-update -d -f ./pieeprom-out.bin

STEP11: You will now see the following message

BCM2711 detected Dedicated VL805 EEPROM detected *** INSTALLING ./pieeprom-out.bin *** BOOTFS /boot EEPROM update pending. Please reboot to apply the update.

STEP12: Last Step .. type sudo reboot

When the Raspberry Pi reboots the bootloader Splashscreen is gone.

To re-enable the splashscreen for diagnostics .. just redo all the steps above changing DISABLE_HDMI=1 back to DISABLE_HDMI=0

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  • On a fully up to date system you can now edit the config with sudo -E rpi-eeprom-config --edit. Documented on the page you link to.
    – Dirk
    Nov 12, 2020 at 18:42
  • tried that, didn't work (i'm using Retropie 4.7) all i get is .... pi@retropie:/ $ sudo -E rpi-eeprom-config --edit usage: rpi-eeprom-config [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--out OUT] eeprom rpi-eeprom-config: error: too few arguments ................ but the guide i posted above, Does work.
    – Phil Smith
    Nov 12, 2020 at 21:59

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