Disabling rainbow splash screen does not work

Question

According to elinux, I should be able to disable the rainbow splash screen by setting this option in the /boot/cmdline.txt file:

disable_splash if set to 1, avoids the rainbow splash screen on boot

My cmdline.txt looks like this:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty3 loglevel=1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p6 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait quiet logo.nologo disable_splash=1

However, I still see the rainbow splash screen! I am using the latest Raspbian from NOOBS 1.3.9.

Why does that option not work?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 20 '16 at 01:13

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You have edited the wrong file; disable_splash=1 should be in /boot/config.txt.

edited Dec 20 '16 at 01:13

techraf

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answered Jul 14 '14 at 08:02

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 20 '16 at 01:11

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Yes, but for the Raspberry Pi 3 model B, add the line:

disable_splash=1

to the file:

/boot/config.txt

is not hiding the splash screen with Raspbian Jessie

edited Dec 20 '16 at 01:11

techraf

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answered Dec 20 '16 at 00:52

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 05 '19 at 14:23

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For NOOB you need copy config.txt with command disable_splash=1 to recovery partition.

cd /boot
sudo mkdir /media/recovery
sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/recovery/
sudo cp config.txt /media/recovery/
sudo reboot

Thats it, now no slpash screen show

edited Dec 05 '19 at 14:23

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answered Dec 04 '19 at 19:23

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 23 '17 at 10:26

Seems like there is no way to get around the rainbow screen unless you switch to another bootloader. Checked from github and found the issue is been already addressed. This is a bug require fixing. Or you will to edit the binary (Which i would not recommened).

https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/issues/390

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 26 '18 at 16:17

For me on Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch) these modifications are working for making an absolute silent boot (boot to CLI):

In /boot/cmdline.txt change the console from tty1 to console=tty3.

You'll also need to add quiet splash loglevel=0 logo.nologo vt.global_cursor_default=0 fbcon=map:2.

In /boot/config.txt uncomment or add disable_splash=1.

In /etc/rc.local add dmesg --console-off before exit 0.

Disabling rainbow splash screen does not work

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