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zkab

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Registered: 2025-04-18

Posts: 12

Clean boot into Gnome

I am new to Arch and installed it at Dell XPS with 'archinstall'.
Arch will be the only OS at that computer.
I had Fedora installed before at the same computer and didn't get any messages below ... only silent boot/reboot.
So ... what I want to do is have a clean boot/reboot without any menus also in Arch.
After reading the documentaion I edit '/etc/default/grub' and regenerated 'grub.cfg'

more  /etc/default/grub
# GRUB boot loader configuration

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=$GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Arch"
# GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet loglevel=3 rd.systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_level=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="zswap.enabled=0 rootfstype=btrfs"


sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
Detecting snapshots ...
Found snapshot: 2026-02-24 12:00:28 | @/.snapshots/4/snapshot | single | timeline |
Found snapshot: 2026-02-24 11:00:02 | @/.snapshots/3/snapshot | single | timeline |
Found snapshot: 2026-02-23 13:00:02 | @/.snapshots/2/snapshot | single | timeline |
Found snapshot: 2026-02-23 12:23:40 | @/.snapshots/1/snapshot | single | timeline |
Found 4 snapshot(s)
Unmount /tmp/grub-btrfs.cRhrrb3fHa .. Success
done

When booting I get:

    Booting 'Arch Linux'
    Loading Linux linux ...
    Loadind initial ramdisk
   
and when rebooting (but not when shutdown):

    [xx.xxx] watchlog:watchlog0:watchdog did not stop
   
How do I get rid of these messages?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,360

Re: Clean boot into Gnome

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Silent_boot

The first three are in /boot/grub/grub.cfg, grub-mkconfig will put them there, you've to manually edit the config.
For the last one you'd want to figure why the watchdog didn't stop rather than suppressing it, consult the system journal.

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zkab

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Registered: 2025-04-18

Posts: 12

Re: Clean boot into Gnome

I installed Plymouth and thing went better ...
Now I have only at boot following menu:

   Arch Linux (linux)
   Reboot Into Firmware Interface

Another issue is that I don't see the OEM logo (Theme=bgrt) ... I also tried to change to (Theme=spinner) but I don't see that either.
Also I created /etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf but still no logo.
The log file /var/log/boot.log has no errors.

cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
...
HOOKS=(base plymouth udev autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)

cat /etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf
add_dracutmodules+=" plymouth "

cat /usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults
# Distribution defaults. Changes to this file will get overwritten during
# upgrades.
[Daemon]
Theme=bgrt
ShowDelay=0
DeviceTimeout=8

/boot/loader/entries/boot/loader/entries/2026-02-24_14-26-20_linux.conf
options root=PARTUUID=e4cab983-bd3f-4309-adb9-ad8e10735cbd zswap.enabled=0 rootflags=subvol=@ rw rootfstype=btrfs quiet loglevel=3 systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_level=3 splash

seth

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From: Don't DM me only for attention

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,360

Re: Clean boot into Gnome

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Silent … RUB_silent
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Silent … _from_UEFI

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