Removing "quiet" and "splash" from cmdline.txt does not show verbose boot process

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#1

I'm trying to understand how to get Mate on Pi to show the complete boot process.

The line in cmdline.txt is

net.ifnames=0 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=LABEL-writable rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait fixrtc quiet splash

I tried removing "quiet" and "splash" to get

net.ifnames=0 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=LABEL-writable rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait fixrtc

But get the same splash screen.

I also tried adding "verbose" to produce

net.ifnames=0 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=LABEL-writable rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait fixrtc verbose
And still get the splash screen.

Any idea what I am missing?

#2

This is on Ubuntu Mate 20.04 for Raspberry Pi

#3

On amd64 devices I usually use verbose INIT_VERBOSE=y noplymouth .
You can try the same on RPi.

#4

I had the same problem, after making the same change as you with the same (non-)result, but eventually resolved it... but I don't remember HOW. :frowning:
Basically, all I can say is that yes, it's possible, but nothing more than that, sorry.

I have a vague feeling i just did a recursive grep for "splash" on the entire FS, and found one somewhere else in a file that the boot process was "secretly" actually using, rather than the cmdline.txt that you and I "incorrectly" thought it was. (I suspect it's another file that gets added to the cmdline.txt contents: the Pi boot process does stuff like that a lot).

I'll check my notes in case I wrote it down, but it wasn't until a few weeks after I'd finished setting everything else up that I finally tracked it down, so don't get your hopes up.