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--- plymouth [2025/01/08 19:44] – created wigums
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+===== 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>

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