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6 plymouth - A graphical boot system and logger
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9 plymouth is a graphical boot system for Linux which takes advantage of
10 the kernel-based mode setting (KMS) available for modern graphic cards
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12 allows to choose between various, static or animated graphical themes
13 to spruce up the startup and avoid the noise generated by the vast
14 amount of kernel messages while the machine boots into X. On systems
15 where kernel-based mode setting is not available, plymouth falls back
16 to a text mode boot screen which provides a simple progress bar to pro‐
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19 In order for the configured default plymouth theme to be loaded during
20 boot, the option `splash' (or `rhgb' for backward compatibility with
21 the RHGB boot splash) must be provided at the kernel command line.
22 Without this command line option, plymouth will default to showing
23 detailed boot output.
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25 During the boot process, the user can switch between the graphical
26 theme and the detailed boot output using the Escape key.
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33 plymouth was originally prototyped and named by Kristian Høgsberg,
34 originally written by Ray Strode and has had significant contributions
35 from Charlie Brej. It has also had contributions from Peter Jones, Adam
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