I don’t know what’s wrong with the update a few weeks ago but since then, when I was still on the Cinnamon Spin, my LUKS prompt have become text-based and the usual spinner with HP’s logo is now only three square dots in the middle of the screen. Even after completely wiping out everything on my drive and reinstalling Fedora (I switched to the main Workstation for F37) the issue still persists.
Is it because of Windows? I have been dual-booting Windows 10 and Fedora for more than two months now, but this issue happens only recently. I haven’t got a chance to install only Fedora on my drive, though. Also I’ve tried changing the default plymouth theme to bgrt and spinner but to no avail.
Oh, and also ever since then I’ve also been getting some texts that say something about “broadcasting” and “shutdown” when I shut it down. It often flashes for just less than a second, I haven’t been able to take a photo of it.
[firman@harry ~]$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.0.9-300.fc37.x86_64 (mockbuild@bkernel01.iad2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc (GCC) 12.2.1 20220819 (Red Hat 12.2.1-2), GNU ld version 2.38-24.fc37) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Nov 16 17:36:22 UTC 2022
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt5)/vmlinuz-6.0.9-300.fc37.x86_64 root=UUID=b81787e9-0fd2-4205-9d55-1af42c4a1655 ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.luks.uuid=luks-df717762-ee07-4bc0-ab68-ef19448a8634 rhgb quiet
Huh, so apparently it’s missing the “splash” parameter…?
Do you have recommendation on how to properly edit grub2.cfg file? I found multiple different ways to do it. I do have backups already but currently I don’t have that much time to reinstall the OS.
Grub-customizer is great tool to edit booting scripts but it cannot edit own menu so, you have to configure the file such as vim, graphical text editor and so on.
I tried adding the “splash” parameter after “quiet”, and it is still there after I reboot it, but i’m not getting the usual boot graphics. Just saw other post that said you don’t have to put “splash” parameter if plymouth is using splash. So, I guess the issue is in plymouth?
Talk about plymouth, when I tried changing the default theme I ran
Is it something like this?
Something to do with a timing that I won’t be able to do much about? TBH, I’m not sure I understand enough to know where to start. For now I’m changing my plymouth theme to “details”, the output lines one, since the background is darker.
I don’t understand this either. If it is timing. then it could be that plymouth would display properly during poweroff as by then the GPU has been fully initialized.
Maybe a bugzilla report against plymouth could help.
Trying to the configuration sequence on the serial console, I created a completely new image on the SD card. Rebooted. Absolutely no video image on the HDMI monitor, but on the serial console I at least got some type of status as the Pi booted.
But… I still get no configuration screen or such… just a demand for login. And since this is a Pi4B ARM64 image, not a lot of options to tweak it.
This all I get…
[ OK ] Started sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon.
[ OK ] Finished NetworkManager-wa…[0m - Network Manager Wait Online.
[ OK ] Reached target network-online.target - Network is Online.
[ OK ] Reached target remote-fs-p…eparation for Remote File Systems.
[ OK ] Reached target remote-fs.target - Remote File Systems.
Starting rpc-statd-notify.…- Notify NFS peers of a restart…
Starting systemd-user-sess…vice - Permit User Sessions…
Starting virtqemud.service…0m - Virtualization qemu daemon…
[ OK ] Started rpc-statd-notify.s…m - Notify NFS peers of a restart.
[ OK ] Finished systemd-user-sess…ervice - Permit User Sessions.
Starting gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager…
Starting plymouth-quit-wai… until boot process finishes up…
[ OK ] Started gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager.
Fedora Linux 37 (Workstation Edition)
Kernel 6.0.7-301.fc37.aarch64 on an aarch64 (ttyS1)
I see examples of doing configuration of Fedora via serial console, but they are NOT version 37, but version 33, 35, etc.