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CarterCox

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2018-02-24

Posts: 116

Bootsplash screw-up

Hello! So I have setup Arch just right and, as a human, I couldn't avoid screwing it up, so I tried to set up a bootsplash. I followed this 2 guides:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Silent_boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth

I am using a Core 2 Duo P8700 (https://ark.intel.com/products/37006/In … 66-MHz-FSB) and, because of this, I added the following to:

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf

HOOKS="base udev [ins]plymouth[/ins]... [del]fsck[/del] shutdown" #Also copied and edited the necesary files to have systemd check the FS (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Silent_boot#fsck), note that I'm not using "systemd" as a hook.

MODULES="[ins]intel_agp i915[/ins]" #"added to enable early KMS as detailed here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_mode_setting .

/etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="[ins]quiet splash loglevel=3 udev.log_priority=3[/ins] nowatchdog"

After this, I of course regenerated the initramfs image and grub.cfg.

Everything worked till I enabled Plymouth (meaning that "Silent Boot" works fine, but Plymouth ruins something).

What happens now is:

I power on, the boot splash shows up (the default grey one with a little white animation) and right after that a black screen and nothing else. I cannot switch to the CLI using Alt+Ctrl+FX, which leads me to believe the boot process didn't finish.

Does anyone know how to solve this (I know that I can boot into the USB I used to install, mount and chroot into my root partition to change everything back and regenerate grub.cfg and the initramfs, but I want to solve this without having to give up the boot splash)?

Any help is appreciated and sorry for the long post!

Thread posted here as well (in case anyone wants to check it out): https://www.linuxforums.org/forum/arch- … post995315

Last edited by CarterCox (2018-03-14 23:32:24)

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CarterCox

Member

From: Argentina

Registered: 2018-02-24

Posts: 116

Re: Bootsplash screw-up

Interesting update:

So I tried enabling and disabling single items. The problematic item seems to be the "splash" kernel parameter. If I enable everything ( https://pastebin.com/R6PMxuuS - https://pastebin.com/rEd6XaV3) there won't be a bootsplash but it will take me to my DM.

Last edited by CarterCox (2018-03-14 21:53:32)

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And neither the angels in Heaven above
   Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;