Plymouth doesn't want me

General system Newbie
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:thinking:

Why don’t I see Plymouth if I already have it installed?

I installed this Plymouth from the website

https://www.pling.com/p/2144745/

but when I restart it only shows me the boot in verbose mode, what did I do wrong?

I attach my Grub.

# GRUB boot loader configuration

GRUB_DEFAULT='0'
GRUB_TIMEOUT='300'
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='EndeavourOS'
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='nowatchdog nvme_load=YES loglevel=3'
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Preload both GPT and MBR modules so that they are not missed
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos"

# Uncomment to enable booting from LUKS encrypted devices
#GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y

# Set to 'countdown' or 'hidden' to change timeout behavior,
# press ESC key to display menu.
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu

# Uncomment to use basic console
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=console

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `videoinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=auto

# Uncomment to allow the kernel use the same resolution used by grub
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

# Uncomment if you want GRUB to pass to the Linux kernel the old parameter
# format "root=/dev/xxx" instead of "root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx"
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY='true'

# Uncomment and set to the desired menu colors.  Used by normal and wallpaper
# modes only.  Entries specified as foreground/background.
#GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-blue/black"
#GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue"

# Uncomment one of them for the gfx desired, a image background or a gfxtheme
GRUB_BACKGROUND='/usr/share/endeavouros/splash.png'
#GRUB_THEME="/path/to/gfxtheme"

# Uncomment to get a beep at GRUB start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

# Uncomment to make GRUB remember the last selection. This requires
# setting 'GRUB_DEFAULT=saved' above.
#GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true

# Uncomment to disable submenus in boot menu
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU='false'

# Probing for other operating systems is disabled for security reasons. Read
# documentation on GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER, if still want to enable this
# functionality install os-prober and uncomment to detect and include other
# operating systems.
#GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK=''

Thanks

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Just is just a theme. That isn’t plymouth itself.

Also, I am not in front of my machine right now to provide detailed instructions right now but you need to not only install plymouth but change your kernel options and dracut configuration to support that.

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OK,
Thank you.

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Below are my notes from back when I first got Plymouth working with Grub. I was using the bgrt-better-luks plymouth theme.

WARNING - I switched to systemd-boot at the same time as EndeavourOS, so these notes may be out of date, and they include other tweaks I was making to Grub.

yay -S plymouth plymouth-theme-bgrt-better-luks
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R bgrt-better-luks

sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
ADD i915 to MODULES=""
ADD sd-plymouth to HOOKS after base udev

sudo mkinitcpio -P

sudo nano /etc/default/grub
ADD quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 to start of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
#loglevel=3

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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Except that is for mkinitcpio so probably be a bit different for dracut.

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The Arch Wiki section for Plymouth includes this for dracut:

After installing Plymouth, dracut will automatically detect it and add it to your initramfs images. If autodetection fails, you can force dracut to include Plymouth by adding the following line to your dracut configuration:

/etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf
add_dracutmodules+=" plymouth "
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Sorry, it doesn’t work or the splash doesn’t appear on startup but it does appear when I restart or turn off the computer.

Very strange.

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Did you run sudo grub-mkconfig -b /boot/grub/grub.cfg after adding the kernel options to the grub config file?

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Well, everything works perfectly now and to top it off I’ve also installed a GRUB menu that works perfectly.

The problem was the damn “quiet splash” line in the boot process.

Endeavour is like a Meccano, if you want something, you have to do it yourself (there is always help, but you have to look hard) although it is a bit different from my previous distro Mageia (I still use it)

As I said, thank you all very much.

My new GRUB: GRUB

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