Plymouth

===== plymouth =====

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.

you can install plymouth on slackware from https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/plymouth/?search=plymouth for which i use sbotools which is at https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/sbotools/

once plymouth is installed

edit /etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf and add this line add_dracutmodules+=" plymouth "

edit your /etc/default/grub to include GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash"

themes are in /usr/share/plymouth/themes

to view available themes plymouth-set-default-theme -l

to set the theme plymouth-set-default-theme solar

dracut --list-modules

load plymouth module dracut --add-drivers plymouth

build new initrd dracut --force /boot/initrd-.img

update your bootloader to use the new initrd. i use grub2 grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg