diff --git a/locale/circuitpython.pot b/locale/circuitpython.pot
index 72ee60cc0c..4e7abcb0b8 100644
--- a/locale/circuitpython.pot
+++ b/locale/circuitpython.pot
@@ -2410,6 +2410,10 @@ msgid ""
 "You pressed the reset button during boot. Press again to exit safe mode."
 msgstr ""
 
+#: supervisor/shared/micropython.c
+msgid "[truncated due to length]"
+msgstr ""
+
 #: py/objtype.c
 msgid "__init__() should return None"
 msgstr ""
diff --git a/supervisor/shared/micropython.c b/supervisor/shared/micropython.c
index ebc0aef2d1..5ee0061544 100644
--- a/supervisor/shared/micropython.c
+++ b/supervisor/shared/micropython.c
@@ -62,8 +62,15 @@ void mp_hal_stdout_tx_strn(const char *str, size_t len) {
     #ifdef CIRCUITPY_BOOT_OUTPUT_FILE
     if (boot_output != NULL) {
         // Ensure boot_out.txt is capped at 1 filesystem block and ends with a newline
-        if (len + boot_output->len > 508) {
-            vstr_add_str(boot_output, "...\n");
+        #define TRUNCATED translate("[truncated due to length]")
+        size_t truncated_message_len = decompress_length(TRUNCATED);
+        size_t maxlen = 512 - truncated_message_len; // includes trailing '\0' so we do not need to account for trailing newline '\n' in vstr_add_byte
+        if (len + boot_output->len > maxlen) {
+            size_t remaining_len = maxlen - boot_output->len;
+            vstr_add_strn(boot_output, str, remaining_len);
+            char buf[truncated_message_len];
+            vstr_add_str(boot_output, decompress(TRUNCATED, buf));
+            vstr_add_byte(boot_output, '\n');
             boot_output = NULL;
         } else {
             vstr_add_strn(boot_output, str, len);