NOOBS 1.8 - reducing the OS selection time / no splash scree

[typxxi]

Hey,

I have a raspi 2B with noobs 1.8 with raspbian and openelec.

how can i disable the OS selection time which is typically 10 seconds.

The autoboot.txt trick did not work for me after adding the line boot_partition=6
I still get the OS selection menu which will take 10 seconds.

I have put that file in "media/pi/SETTINGS" directory

thx

[procount]

autoboot.txt is read by the GPU on boot, so you need to put it on the RECOVERY partition along with the other NOOBS files i.e. /dev/mmcblk0p1 - the FAT partition you can see if you put the card in a Windows machine.

[typxxi]

Thx!

[HermanR76]

I struggled a bit before i found this post. For future reference for myself and maybe help others I'm gonna post my setup and what i did to solve it.

I have a PI v3 and needed it to boot between Raspbian and OpenELEC through SSH commands (using tasker and a ssh plugin on my phone to automate a couple things).

To get it up and running with automatic switching between the two OS's i made a series of command sent through ssh.

To find out which partition to start you use the command:

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sudo fdisk -l

Primary partition Logical partition Type Label Contents
1 FAT RECOVERY NOOBS boot files & initramfs, OS recovery images
2 extended Any logical partitions
5 ext4 SETTINGS NOOBS settings
6 FAT boot ArchLinux boot files
7 ext4 root ArchLinux root filesystem
8 FAT boot1 Raspbian boot files
9 ext4 root1 Raspbian root filesystem

Partition 1 is the noobs partition. Partition 6 is the RaspBian and Partition 8 is OpenELEC (on my setup).

I'm a newbie when it comes to Linux, so if anyone have suggestions of improving how this is done, feel free to tell me
I have thought about storing scripts on the OS's to run, but havent gotten that far yet.

To get the PI to reboot into OpenELEC from RaspBian i did the following:

#make a folder in /tmp to mount noobs partition, this folder gets removed on reboot so you have to do the command every time.

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mkdir /tmp/noobs

#mount the partition to said folder

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sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/noobs

#make the file autoboot.txt in the root folder of noobs partition

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echo "boot_partition=8" | sudo tee /tmp/noobs/autoboot.txt

#reboot the PI

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sudo reboot

To reboot the PI into Raspbian from OpenELEC:

#make a folder in /tmp to mount noobs partition, this folder gets removed on reboot so you have to do the command every time.

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mkdir /tmp/noobs

#mount the partition to said folder. On OpenElec the actual location is different from Raspbian.
#OpenELEC doesn't have the "sudo" function since you are "root" when logged in.

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mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 [b]/var/media/root[/b]/tmp/noobs

#make the file autoboot.txt in the root folder of noobs partition

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echo "boot_partition=8" > var/media/root/tmp/noobs/autoboot.txt

#reboot the PI

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reboot

Hope this will help some newbies like me

Regards

Herman

!PS Added the xml files from tasker.
!PPS Following this guide is done at your own risk