Plymouth
Revision as of 19:34, 8 September 2014 by imported>Aaditya (→typos)
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.
The 0.8.10 Manjaro main editions use Plymouth by default.
Installation
The steps from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth#Installation apply, except the last step;
To rebuild the initrd image, following command is used:
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux<version>
Here <version> represents your kernel version. For example,
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux314
Configuration
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth#Configuration
Removal
4 or 5 steps are neede to remove Plymouth. They are:
- Remove plymouth hook from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
- Regenerate the initramfs for your kernel with sudo mkinitcpio -p linux<version>
- Remove the word splash from the Grub command line options via editing /etc/default/grub
- Update Grub config file with sudo update-grub
After that the plymouth package and its themes can be removed.
Forum Support
Have a look at the following link: Plymouth