The initial version of this has been deprecated. I will describe a new way to achieve this here.
Introduced in GNU/linux 4.19, there's an option to skip the blanking of the Uefi vendor logo. Your kernel has to be compiled with this option set: CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER=y
(this is the case for the kernel in archlinux repos)
add this to your kernel commandline to stop text output on boot:
quiet loglevel=3 rd.systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_priority=3
Now we're still getting fsck messages. let systemd handle this:
- replace
udev
hook withsystemd
in/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
- edit
systemd-fsck-root.service
and[email protected]
- add these arguments to
[Service]
:StandardOutput=null
andStandardError=journal+console
- add these arguments to
For the screen not to flicker, one should enable fastboot mode for early KMS in intel driver(i don't know about nvidia and radeon. if you do, please tell me.)
- add i915 to modules array in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
- add
i915.fastboot=1
to your kernel commandline (e.g/etc/default/grub
) OR - put
options i915 fastboot=1
in/etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
or similar
displays the UEFI Logo during initramfs stage
depends on fbv, xrandr, awk, lzop
- install fbv
- copy the files to
/etc/initcpio/hooks/fb-splash
and/etc/initcpio/install/fb-splash
, respectively - enable the hook by adding
fb-splash
to your HOOKS array in/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
(in archlinux) - regenerate your initramfs