===== plymouth =====

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]]

once plymouth is installed 

edit /etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf and add this line
<code>add_dracutmodules+=" plymouth "</code>

edit your /etc/default/grub to include 
<code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash"</code>

themes are in /usr/share/plymouth/themes

to view available themes 
<code>plymouth-set-default-theme -l</code>

to set the theme
<code>plymouth-set-default-theme solar</code>

<code>dracut --list-modules</code>

load plymouth module
<code>dracut --add-drivers plymouth</code>

build new initrd
<code>dracut --force /boot/initrd-<kernel-version>.img</code>


update your bootloader to use the new initrd. i use grub2
<code>grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg</code>