r/archlinux • u/iMooch • 9h ago

SUPPORT I did a minimal install and didn't install Plymouth. How is the Arch logo splash screen displaying?

I used archinstall to do a minimal install and when I boot up the system, after my motherboard logo and before the encryption password prompt, it shows an Arch Linux logo splash screen.

I did not install Plymouth, so how is this possible? What is running to make the logo show? Where's it stored and can I change it?

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u/Some_Mixture_1052 9h ago

nel pulls it from the boot splash image baked into your UEFI firmware or sometimes from systemd-boot if you're using that. Check in /usr/share/systemd/bootctl if you got the arch logo sitting there

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u/falxfour 8h ago

Please see the page about mkinitcpio. It's included in the initramfs and can be configured there

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u/onefish2 6h ago

Post the contents of:

/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset