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plymouth [2025/01/08 19:44] – created wigumsplymouth [2025/01/08 22:24] (current) wigums
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 +===== plymouth =====
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 Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.  Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. 
  
 you can install plymouth on slackware from [[https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/plymouth/?search=plymouth|plymouth]] for which i use [[sbotools]] which is at [[https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/sbotools/|sbotools]] you can install plymouth on slackware from [[https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/plymouth/?search=plymouth|plymouth]] for which i use [[sbotools]] which is at [[https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/sbotools/|sbotools]]
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 +once plymouth is installed 
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 +edit /etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf and add this line
 +<code>add_dracutmodules+=" plymouth "</code>
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 +edit your /etc/default/grub to include 
 +<code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash"</code>
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 +themes are in /usr/share/plymouth/themes
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 +to view available themes 
 +<code>plymouth-set-default-theme -l</code>
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 +to set the theme
 +<code>plymouth-set-default-theme solar</code>
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 +<code>dracut --list-modules</code>
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 +load plymouth module
 +<code>dracut --add-drivers plymouth</code>
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 +build new initrd
 +<code>dracut --force /boot/initrd-<kernel-version>.img</code>
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 +
 +update your bootloader to use the new initrd. i use grub2
 +<code>grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg</code>
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