Hello ,
I added the Plymouth recipe to enable an animated splash screen during boot. The themes are correctly installed and visible in /usr/lib/plymouth/themes/, but no animation appears during startup — only the login prompt is shown. After modifying the bootargs to include quiet splash plymouth.enable=1, the default splash screen appears, but the animation is still missing. Could you please help me resolve this issue?
/usr/lib/plymouth/themes/
bootargs
quiet splash plymouth.enable=1
Thank you.
Hii Harsha ,
I haven’t tried this myself, but you could select your custom theme as the system default by running update-alternatives --config default.plymouth and choosing your theme from the list . After that, rebuild the initramfs so your theme is included early in the boot process with update-initramfs -u . Make sure you’ve removed any nomodeset parameter from your kernel command line so Plymouth can use KMS or a framebuffer, and confirm your bootargs include quiet splash vt.handoff=7 so the kernel hands off the display to Plymouth smoothly. Finally, reboot and you should see your animated splash instead of the default screen.
update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
update-initramfs -u
nomodeset
quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Best Regards,
GN_Renesas
I am using yocto on rzg2l and there is no initramfs. I have tried with plymouth-set-default-theme and bootargs as mentioned 'quiet splash ...' then I can see only the default splash screen. Then I have tried to check early-splash image by following https://confluence.renesas.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=173180606#Kernel-EarlySplashScreeninLinux even it is not showing up.
Hi GN_Renesas ,
I am able to run the plymouth animation manually , but it is not coming on the boot. I am trying to remove psplash thinking it may overriding the plymouth animation but I am not able to do it . Can you please help me with this.
Could you please share the steps you followed to integrate Plymouth into your build, along with the specific package versions you used? This information will help me replicate the issue on my end and assist you more effectively.
Kind Regards,
I am using the plymouth recipe in meta-openembedded->meta-oe->recipes-core->plymouth (0.9.4).
I have added IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "plymouth plymouth-set-default-theme" in local.conf and rebuild the image. and still I didnt see any animation.