Plymouth Uses Wrong Boot-up Theme

[Ahmad Samir]

On 10/06/14 03:27, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Stephen Morris writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>     I have just configured Plymouth is install a graphical theme into
>> the initrd. I specified that I wanted the 'Solar Flares' theme to be
>> used, which correctly gets used at shutdown, but at start up the
>> 'Solar Flares' theme is not used, instead the 'Hotdog' theme is used.
>> Is this a bug in Plymouth or is this normal functionality?
>
> You have to rebuild initramfs. Which is a pain; the easiest idiot-proof
> way to do this is as follows:
>
> 1) Reboot, but select one of the older kernels from the grub menu, and
> boot it.
> 2) After you boot, manually rpm -i the newest installed kernel
> 3) Run yum update to reinstall the newest kernel package.
>
> After you reboot, you should have the new theme coming up when booting
> the newest kernel.
>
>
>


To rebuild the initrd, as root:
dracut -f

this will build the initrd for the currently running kernel, have a look 
at the manual page for how to rebuild the initrd for a specific kernel.

-- 
Ahmad Samir