Plymouth not working on start up

General system Newbie
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Using systemd-boot and dracut. I want to set a splash screen, so I did the following:

  1. Install
yay -S plymouth-git plymouth-kcm breeze-plymouth
  1. Configure dracut
$ cat /etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf
add_dracutmodules+=" plymouth "
  1. Configure systemd-boot
$ cat /etc/kernel/cmdline
nvme_load=YES nowatchdog rw rootflags=subvol=/@ root=UUID=60e03a50-4407-4d46-a548-fcdfd4464dad quiet loglevel=3 splash
  1. Configure plymouth
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme bgrt
  1. Generate new init boot image
$ sudo reinstall-kernels

But the problem is I seem to see the setup when restarting/shutting down, but not on start up. Am I missing something?

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What is your GPU?

3

An AMD Ryzen 7900

4

You could try early loading your GPU drivers in dracut and see if that helps.

There is an example in the drauct wiki article on Discovery.

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Thank you! That did it. Here’s the updated step by step in case anyone else has this issue:

  1. Install
yay -S plymouth-git plymouth-kcm breeze-plymouth
  1. Configure dracut
$ cat /etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf
add_dracutmodules+=" plymouth "
force_drivers+=" amdgpu "
  1. Configure systemd-boot
$ cat /etc/kernel/cmdline
nvme_load=YES nowatchdog rw rootflags=subvol=/@ root=UUID=60e03a50-4407-4d46-a548-fcdfd4464dad quiet loglevel=3 splash
  1. Configure plymouth
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme bgrt

$ cat /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
[Daemon]
Theme=bgrt
DeviceTimeout=8
ShowDelay=0
DeviceScale=2
  1. Generate new init boot image
sudo reinstall-kernels
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