can i disable the boot splash screen in order to see dmesg?

  • i don't make it to kodi (and have broken my network config apparently), can i modify something in the SD card filesystem to disable the libreelec splash screen in order to see the kernel logs?
    also vaguely related question, is there a description of how the filesystem in libreelec works? i know there's the SYSTEM squashfs, but i assume there's also some overlay? where does that live? i found the .cache folder in the second partition (i'm on a rpi), but it doesn't seem to be a complete diff of what i've changed.

    thank you :)

  • ah, i found .config - which is where the configuration i had broken was, so i am back in! but i would still be interested in disabling the boot splash.

    • disable the rainbow screen: add disable_splash=1 to config.txt
    • disable the LibreELEC splash screen: add nosplash to cmdline.txt

    The result is a black screen at boot time, and you only see the LE version on top left. You will not see the dmesg output.

    Remove quiet from cmdline.txt to see the output.