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Dalton63841

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Registered: 2015-05-15

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[SOLVED]Plymouth + EFI

I have a set up install of Arch, fully updated, with no actual boot manager. I used only efibootmgr to make it bootable. I'm trying to get Plymouth working on here, but not having much luck. I can install and configure just fine, but then it says to push "splash" on the kernel parameters. Since I have no bootloader, I assumed I just add it into the efibootmgr command, like so:

# efibootmgr -d /dev/sda -1 Y -c -L "Arch Linux" -l /vmlinuz-linux -u "root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/sda4 quiet splash initrd=/initramfs-linux.img"

That DOES get plymouth to work, but then just before going to the desktop, it shows the text again, and repeats the following line ad infinitum, save the number increasing:

radeon: ring3 stalled for more than XXXX seconds

If I remove splash from the efibootmgr line, it boots up perfectly, but without plymouth.

Last edited by Dalton63841 (2015-05-15 22:12:41)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED]Plymouth + EFI

Did you add the "plymouth" hook and the "radeon" module to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf & regenerate your initrd?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pl … mouth_hook

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Dalton63841

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Registered: 2015-05-15

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Re: [SOLVED]Plymouth + EFI

Did you add the "plymouth" hook and the "radeon" module to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf & regenerate your initrd?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pl … mouth_hook

Head, meet Desk. Problem solved. It's been a LONG time since I last reinstalled, and for some reason I was thinking this laptop uses intel graphics. Once I replaced the intel drivers with ati, and replaced i915 with radeon in mkinitcpio.conf, it started working.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED]Plymouth + EFI

Head, meet Desk

Hello Desk

Glad you got it working!

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