Plymouth boot theme refuses to change from default

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hello! For context, I originally set up EndeavourOS using the GRUB boot manager, but later switched to systemd-boot. When I try to set a new Plymouth theme, it doesn’t appear at boot. Instead, I still see the default theme with the OEM motherboard logo in the center, a spinner below it, and the Arch logo at the bottom.

I’ve tried:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R CustomTheme

I’ve even tried creating this file: /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvidiaload.conf
containing this line force_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm "
(Yes i have an NVIDIA GPU and to my knowledge the drivers have been installed correctly on EOS install)

and using

sudo dracut rebuild --force

My theme appears in /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf and even shows up when I run:

plymouth --show-splash

My /boot/efi/loader/entries/arch.conf includes the following:

title EndeavourOS
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=UUID=[REDACTED] rw rootflags=subvol=@,noatime quiet splash loglevel=3 rd.systemd.show_status=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0

this is driving me crazy, I feel like I’ve done everything, but the boot splash won’t change, not even to one of the other built-in themes.

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Instead of this, use sudo dracut-rebuild

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Okay, I ran that, and still nothing. So I decided to ls -lh both /boot and /boot/efi. Sure enough, the initramfs images were still only being generated in /boot. I found this suspicious because everything else needed to be moved to that location. So I moved the images and sure enough, it now shows my custom Plymouth splash screen! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Looking at /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset tells me I didn’t fully switch everything over from grub, as there are still things defaulting to/boot instead of /boot/efi and I’m guessing that’s what was telling it to store the images there.

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If you are using dracut, you shouldn’t also be using mkinitcpio. You can only use one or the other.

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