# Replace the default "Booted - check your balenaCloud dashboard"

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Created:** [December 12, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953 "2022-12-12T12:29:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![RodrigoM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/rodrigom/32/5690_2.png) [@RodrigoM](https://forums.balena.io/u/RodrigoM)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/1 "2022-12-12T12:29:34Z")

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Hi there,

Is there any option to change the default message in the Intel x86\_64 image _Booted - Check your balenaCloud dashboard_?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![jfkingsley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@jfkingsley](https://forums.balena.io/u/jfkingsley)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/2 "2022-12-12T21:07:47Z")

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Hey!

This isn’t currently an option we support at present - you can find the full list of supported configuration options for BalenaOS here: [Configuration - Balena Documentation](https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/OS/configuration/)

I have raised this as a request, could I ask you a bit more about what you’re looking to customise, and what you’d like out of such a feature?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![RodrigoM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/rodrigom/32/5690_2.png) [@RodrigoM](https://forums.balena.io/u/RodrigoM)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/5 "2022-12-12T21:49:36Z")

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As these devices are typically at a client’s site, it is important that we can add personalized messages for technical folks on site.  
A textual message in plain text would be great instead of the default and general balenaCloud message.

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**Author:** ![jfkingsley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@jfkingsley](https://forums.balena.io/u/jfkingsley)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/6 "2022-12-12T21:52:32Z")

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Great, that definitely makes sense! I’ve made sure to make a note of that on the request. Is there anything else we can help with?

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**Author:** ![RodrigoM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/rodrigom/32/5690_2.png) [@RodrigoM](https://forums.balena.io/u/RodrigoM)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/9 "2022-12-13T13:02:14Z")

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Thanks, that’s all!

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**Author:** ![chrisys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/chrisys/32/1731_2.png) [@chrisys](https://forums.balena.io/u/chrisys)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/10 "2022-12-14T13:58:27Z")

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@RodrigoM it’s perhaps worth mentioning here that’s there’s nothing to stop you outputting something to the monitor with a container in your application that clears the screen and writes a message of your choosing.

Here’s an example that outputs the ‘boinctui’ to the screen, but there’s no reason you couldn’t just output a message: [rosetta-at-home/start.sh at master · balena-labs-projects/rosetta-at-home · GitHub](https://github.com/balena-labs-projects/rosetta-at-home/blob/master/ui/start.sh)

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**Author:** ![RodrigoM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/rodrigom/32/5690_2.png) [@RodrigoM](https://forums.balena.io/u/RodrigoM)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/12 "2023-04-25T19:01:24Z")

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@chrisys Somehow I cannot manage to make this work. Why is `/dev/tty2` used in the example?  
Do I need to set the Docker container as `privileged`. e.g. `privileged: true`?

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**Author:** ![chrisys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/chrisys/32/1731_2.png) [@chrisys](https://forums.balena.io/u/chrisys)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/13 "2023-05-11T09:16:47Z")

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@RodrigoM I honestly don’t remember why certain choices were made back then, but I do remember it was running great and had a full interface displayed locally. You would need to set the container as privileged for sure in order for it to have access to the `/dev` directory. You could try mapping the specific device but I’d try and get it working first. You could also try pushing the rosetta-at-home project as it stands to see if that works as a starting point?

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**Author:** ![RodrigoM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/rodrigom/32/5690_2.png) [@RodrigoM](https://forums.balena.io/u/RodrigoM)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/replace-the-default-booted-check-your-balenacloud-dashboard/365953/14 "2023-05-12T16:42:20Z")

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Thanks @chrisys . After some debugging, it is working just fine. Thanks.
