Very quiet boot.

Question

ok, what I would like to do is make arch boot very quietly, by this I mean from grub to X I dont want to see anything but splash screen, as of know using fbsplash and quiet kernel parameter still gives me a small chunk of output informing me that udev is starting, I also get the first few lines of initscript output before fbsplash starts, what I would like to do is make it more like ubuntu (gasp i know) where you see nothing but a pretty logo until gdm is started. I believe this may involve some kernel patching but im not sure. Im really trying to add that extra polish to my friends arch box who is converting from ubuntu so any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

kolbycrouch wrote:
@unia, Ive tried plymouth recently, It appears on shutdown but not on boot, either way it seems to only start after kms has, which is about 1/3 of the way through the initscripts. I believe I can make the initscripts quiet however there is still the issue of few kernel lines before init is started, Im not sure how to get around this.
@stebalien, looking over at the file /lib/initcpio/init, it seems this has something to do with mkinitcpio's output but im not sure.
Thanks for the help.
You can start KMS earlier by adding the module for you driver (nouveau, radeon, etc.) to mkinitcpio.conf and regenerating the kernel image.