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I changed the spinner theme image in plymouth to add a custom background, and I tried to load it on boot.

I have changed /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to add the plymouth hook, and run plymouth-set-default-theme -R spinner multiple times.

My plymouth debug log

When I try to test the theme using commands

plymouthd plymouth --show-splash

It shows up correctly. But during boot, three boxes are shown near the bottom, with question marks above. I have tried the same procedure with spinfinity theme, with no luck.

I can't figure out what is going wrong? Some help please!

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Ref: reddit thread for same question. Thanks to u/kmt1980 for his help. Posting here on his behalf for others who run into this issue.

Plymouth requires Early-KMS init as mentioned in the Arch wiki. That is done by adding your VGA driver to MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf

edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add the driver name to MODULES=(...). My MODULES line looks like this

MODULES=(i915)

i915 because Intel integrated graphics. You can find your VGA driver using this command:

lspci -v | grep -A10 VGA | grep driver

Finally run mkinitcpio -p linux to regenerate ramfs.

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