F19: GRUB and Plymouth issues

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 07/07/2013 02:25 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 07/07/2013 07:15 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
>> On 07/07/2013 01:27 PM, sguazt wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD.
>>>
>>> The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen
>>> * is only text-based (white text with a black background),
>>> * and uses an inadequate text encoding since it shows question marks in
>>> place of the umlauted "o" (i.e., the o vowel with two dots on top of it)
>>> in the Schrodinger word
>>>
>>> The second issue is related to plymouth.
>>> The service plymouth-quit-wait is marked as failed:
>>>
>>> plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
>>>      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service;
>>> disabled)
>>>      Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2013-07-07 12:55:22
>>> CEST;
>>> 5h 30min ago
>>>    Main PID: 396
>>>      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service
>>>
>>>
>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Marco
>>>
>>>
>>
>> About Grub, that is what I did: first I installed grub2-starfield-theme
>> and then I modified the file /etc/default/grub by adding the following
>> lines:
>>
>> GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
>> GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
>>
>> Finally, you should reboot to see the theme in action.
>
> Hi, I think you need an additional step before rebooting:
>
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (don't forget to do a backup copy
> of /boot/grub2/grub.cfg!)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Joachim Backes
>

Oh indeed, I forgot about that part, sorry :)

Thanks Joachim!

Germán.

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Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux