Disable password Qubes logo on boot and change text

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1

Hello,
How to disable Qubes logo at boot time with disk password prompt and change message that show in console?
Thanks

2

not sure if this can be changed permanently. Only knowing the one-time solution → ESC Key

3

You won’t find much help here because customzing the theme of this software, Plymouth, is not related to Qubes OS.

4

Well, you can try this:

  1. firstly, test on the command-line, by pressing “e” at the initial boot menu, find the line starting with “module2 /vmlinuz-6-something”, delete “rhgb quiet” from that line, and instead add “rd.plymouth=0 plymouth.enable=0”. Press F10 to boot. At some point, the scrolling text stops and you may not get a prompt to type your disk password. You can type blindly, and press Enter, or you can press Enter a few times to get the prompt.
  2. If this is something you want to have at every boot, edit (in dom0, as root) /etc/default/grub, searching and removing “rhgb quiet” and adding instead “rd.plymouth=0 plymouth.enable=0”. Then you have to run (also in dom0, as root) “grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg” to create the grub config file. Done.

Be careful when playing with grub - you can lock yourself out (making the boot impossible). Having a QubesOS install disk handy will enable you to recover.

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