Fedora 10 Graphical Bootsplash – Plymouth
Plymouth is a new and amazing Graphical Boot splash for Fedora 10. In order to see the graphical boot and not just the text loader, you must enable a mode setting for your video:
spoilt@spoiltspace.co.uk:~$ sudo nano /boot/grub/grub.conf, and add ‘vga=0x318‘ to the end of the kernel line:
title Fedora (2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=9ae10394-2c58-4076-83c4-b8095211ed2f rhgb quiet vga=0x318
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686.img
Do a reboot and check out the fancy Plymouth graphical booter. Tip: Use vga=ask instead and then follow the instructions to find the appropriate value for your monitor. Then, replace vga=ask with your value. If you’d like to try out the remaining plymouth themes:
spoilt@spoiltspace.co.uk:~$ sudo yum install plymouth-plugin-fade-in plymouth-plugin-pulser plymouth-plugin-spinfinity
spoilt@spoiltspace.co.uk:~$ sudo plymouth-set-default-plugin name_of_the_plugin
spoilt@spoiltspace.co.uk:~$ sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd
Enjoy!
Does this work with nvidia graphic cards?
yeap, it works fine here. I’m using a geforce go 7600 with the nvidia proprietary 3d drivers.
While Plymouth is indeed very cool, it is not a bootloader. It’s a bootsplash. Grub is your default bootloader in Fedora.
Okay, the nitpick police is done..
Thanks for posting this information. On my home server it comes up all pretty but on my laptop and my wife’s laptop it just does the bar at the bottom. When I get home I’m going to give it a try!
Note that vga= is at best a hack and can lead to some odd bugs in X drivers. It also doesn’t give the full effect of a flicker free boot with the mode set only once early in the boot process.
Just wanted to let people know that this isn’t a required step for all systems. On many older video chipsets, Plymouth will work out of the box without any extra steps. It is good information for those of us that have computers we have built within the last 2-3 years though.
[...] by izamryan on Dec.26, 2008, under Musings For a little bit of extra eye-candy, Fedora 10 users can try the “Plymouth boot splash loader” [...]
I can get the pretty bootloader/bootsplash showing (doing the vga hack) but its kick out to a text log in screen. (my inittab is set to 5) then if I log in and do a startx… the screen just goes blank and nothing will never come up… I get the same effect using gnome or KDE (doing the switchdesktop commands in text mode) any ideas???
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