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| bc8e5e | Anonymous | 2026-01-31 02:49:20 | 1 | # Plymouth |
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| 3 | ===== plymouth ===== |
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| 5 | 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. |
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| 7 | you can install plymouth on slackware from [[https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/plymouth/?search=plymouth|plymouth]] for which i use [[sbotools]] which is at [[https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/sbotools/|sbotools]] |
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| 9 | once plymouth is installed |
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| 11 | edit /etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf and add this line |
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| 12 | <code>add_dracutmodules+=" plymouth "</code> |
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| 14 | edit your /etc/default/grub to include |
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| 15 | <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash"</code> |
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| 17 | themes are in /usr/share/plymouth/themes |
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| 19 | to view available themes |
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| 20 | <code>plymouth-set-default-theme -l</code> |
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| 22 | to set the theme |
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| 23 | <code>plymouth-set-default-theme solar</code> |
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| 25 | <code>dracut --list-modules</code> |
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| 27 | load plymouth module |
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| 28 | <code>dracut --add-drivers plymouth</code> |
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| 30 | build new initrd |
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| 31 | <code>dracut --force /boot/initrd-<kernel-version>.img</code> |
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| 34 | update your bootloader to use the new initrd. i use grub2 |
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| 35 | <code>grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg</code> |