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lamzorg

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Registered: 2021-03-08

Posts: 2

How do I remove this weird cursor when booting?

Hello everyone,

I have installed archliux with systemd-boot and plymouth inside a vmware VM.

I edited some files like this:

sudo sed -i 's/timeout.*/timeout 0/g' /boot/loader/loader.conf
sudo sed -i '${s/$/ quiet splash/}' /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
sudo sed -i 's/ShowDelay=.*/ShowDelay=0/g' /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
sudo sed -i 's/HOOKS=.*/HOOKS="base systemd sd-plymouth autodetect keyboard keymap consolefont modconf block lvm2 filesystems fsck"/g' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

This is what a get when booting:
https://i.imgur.com/ENk3W4P.gif

But I have a weird cursor at startup, I would like it not to appear.
https://i.imgur.com/dI33PkH.png

Do you have an idea how to remove this cursor?

Thanks.

Last edited by lamzorg (2021-03-08 11:57:26)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,343

Re: How do I remove this weird cursor when booting?

Please replace those images with links to the images rather than direct embedding.

Not sure how avoidable this will be on a VM. The usual fix here is to add the kernel modules to the initramfs so that they are loaded when modesetting kicks in,  random modinfo probing would suggest vmwgfx and then do https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … _KMS_start

lamzorg

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Registered: 2021-03-08

Posts: 2

Re: How do I remove this weird cursor when booting?

I did all this without success, the cursor still appears.

sudo sed -i 's/MODULES=.*/MODULES=(vmwgfx)/g' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

I'm still going to try it on a real machine to see if it's not related to vmware.

I had tried with grub before but it was even worse, I had a lot of text at startup, even with the grub-silent package.