TinkerOS silent boot? Splash screen?

[NeoOne]

Editing /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf and changing the last line to:

append console=ttyS3,115200n8 earlyprintk quiet splash loglevel=0 logo.nologo plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles console=tty2 rw init=/sbin/init

results in a mute boot.

I'm using TinkerOS 2.0.5 and this is working for me.

[DVE]

Thanks. It works but when I remove "splash" from a string, the log appears again (maybe OS bug? it should not be so).

So I still need to disable plymouth anyway. Tinker OS 2.0.3.

The splash screen is pretty useless btw - it appears about 10 seconds after system power on, than staying only for 1-2 seconds, than disappear, than system is booting another 5 seconds. It will be nice to have a logo immediately when system starts, but I'm not sure that its possible. So I switched it off - it imho more confuse the user, not helps him.

[Robertspark]

The splash screen ...... it appears about 10 seconds after system power on, than staying only for 1-2 seconds, than disappear, than system is booting another 5 seconds. It will be nice to have a logo immediately when system starts, but I'm not sure that its possible. So I switched it off - it imho more confuse the user, not helps him.

Yup I agree, would be nice to have a consistent image

..... I would have thought that Asus would be keen to push their board and brand emphasise it (like they do with the Android version of the Tinker logo starting at time of boot until OS load)....

If this could be done for the tinkerOS with some "simple" images in obvious locations that developers can swap out that would help us.

Yes, I'm more of a tinkerer than a developer .... need to move on more to the application development than fussing with the graphics and wasting time on a splash screen image, but it is the finishing touch to a development IMHO

When I say simple I mean that converting an image to 254 colours and making it a raw or C file format is still simple or at least can be a simple procedure to follow should you want to undertake the change.

I've been busy on other things for the last few days and will pick up on it tonight.

{I don't know if any of this will work, but I was going to try to TinkerOS v2.0.5 tonight}

https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootSplashScreen
https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/LinuxSplashScreen
https://community.nxp.com/thread/254023

[DVE]

If this could be done for the tinkerOS with some "simple" images in obvious locations that developers can swap out that would help us.

The location is known: /usr/share/plymouth/

The problem is, the splash screen is not working as good as expected.

{I don't know if any of this will work, but I was going to try to TinkerOS v2.0.5 tonight}
https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootSplashScreen
https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/LinuxSplashScreen
https://community.nxp.com/thread/254023

Its interesting, keep in touch with your results.

[NeoOne]

One solution to silencing plymouth is to change the theme.
But first it is good to see the themes available:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -l

If you change the theme to 'details', plymouth will not show anything:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme details --rebuild-initrd

Reboot and see the result

[kngdmond]

I just bought the Tinker Board 4 days ago and completely new to linux.

I'm running Emar-Systems Lubuntu 18 image. Its a fairly decent image except they filled the image full of their ads/spam. Every motd or anyplace possible to put their name, it's there. I've manage to strip all the ads except in one place. During initial boot, and I'm assuming its when extlinux.conf gets executed, as the tty1 console messages are being displayed, they somehow load their logo in the upper left hand corner of the screen. I've searched high and low on how to get rid of that logo from appearing. It's not plymouth. I've disabled everything I can possibly Google, but yet that image is still there. I would love to just change it, delete it, do something other than have an advertisement.

I researched the possibility of them using vesamenu.c32 Images & Themes but I can't find any traces of that either.

/boot/extlinux

label Asus Tinker Board
kernel /zImage
fdt /rk3288-miniarm.dtb
append earlyprintk console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw init=/sbin/init

Any ideas? Any help to get rid of that image would be greatly appreciated!!

[Im4Tinker]

Perhaps there is bmp/jpg/png image in /boot. Try to rename it.

[Robertspark]

Uboot?

When in the boot sequence is it displayed?

Can you provide a link a link maybe to an image file and I'll have a look for you (Google drive, Dropbox ?)

[kngdmond]

Thank you Robertspark. I sent you a pm.

I checked for plymouth, vesamenu32, uboot, searched for png, jpg, svg, (didn't think about bmp), I found all the other desktop and button ads/spam, but couldn't find the image that loads at boot.

I tried to post an drop box link, but I wasn't allowed to.

[Im4Tinker]

Why not asking to the authors