TinkerOS silent boot? Splash screen?

[Robertspark]

TinkerOS, how can I setup a silent boot?

And a splash screen to display from boot?

Most examples seem to be for grub

Thanks

[Leviathan]

Hi Robertspark,

please specify your concern: What exactly would you like to mute?

[Robertspark]

Hi Robertspark,

please specify your concern: What exactly would you like to mute?

Basically the long list of loading files.

Looking to use the tinker board as vehicle dashboard.

I've speeder up the boot a fair bit. (Tried other os's, settled back on TinkerOS).

Hence would like to display a static (non animated) image.

Here's something for TinkerOS development, why not add in a boot image, that would allow users to just change the files, and a setting for verbose boot as I've seen others do as a scaled number 0-7 from silent to full.

The tinker android version has a similar image arrangement

[Leviathan]

Thank you for pointing that out.
What you are looking for is a Bootsplash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsplash
On Tinker OS there is Plymouth already installed. But I have no I idea how to configure it, hope someone will help out here.

In order to suppress boot messages one would send a certain kernel option by GRUB, but since there is no GRUB, I have no idea again. :-(

[Robertspark]

Thanks, yup hope someone can help out.

I've been playing with plymouth this evening

Would like a means to get the image loaded at boot via u-boot

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https://github.com/TinkerBoard/debian_u-...ashprepare

bit of info here, searching the repository seems to help maybe

[DVE]

Hi Robertspark.

Did you find a solution for the silent boot?
I described some of my research results here: https://tinkerboarding.co.uk/forum/thread-1302.html

[Robertspark]

Not yet, I've got some way to sorting the splash image at the time of kernel load (and quiet kernel boot), but have not managed to get the splash screen displayed (or loaded) at the time of the initial boot.

[DVE]

I've found the easiest way to hide console boot log: disable plymouth
sudo systemctl mask plymouth-start.service
sudo systemctl mask plymouth-reboot.service
sudo systemctl mask plymouth-poweroff.service
sudo systemctl mask plymouth-halt.service

There definitely should be the easy way to disable TTY on HDMI totally, but I don't know it.

[Robertspark]

Not sure disabling Plymouth is the way forward... Given I want a splash screen.

Are u running TinkerOS?

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Tinker board configuration has a checkbox option for splash screen on the front page and that shows / hides the Debian logo at start which is founding the folders you posted earlier for Plymouth themes

[DVE]

True, if you disable plymouth, you don't have a splash screen more. I'm looking for a workaround for that.

Another way btw, is to install pure armbian without bells and wistles, you'll get black screen during the start too: https://tinkerboarding.co.uk/forum/threa...ml#pid5665 All stuff works for me, expect GPIO.