Animate your boot

plymouth theme

A linux boot animation done by plymouth package, that should be installed:

# yum install plymouth plymouth-plugin-script

You have to create your own theme, or download mine. Mine theme named frwrk and shows firewerk during boot by showing some slides. You can replace slides and do your own boot sequence. Open the downloaded archive as plymouth theme:

# tar -C /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ -z -x -v -f plymouth-frwrk.tgz

Once installed, set it as default plymouth theme

# plymouth-set-default-theme frwrk
# dracut -f

Creating initrd allow plymouth starts animation during initrd phase.

Next step is to disable kernel messages, otherwice animation will be suppressed. Fix emphased parts in file:

# cat /etc/grub/defaults
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL="gfxterm"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=039dece4-f6c8-473a-affa-8fb287837f8e rd.lvm.lv=rhel/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel/swap splash quiet plymouth.enable=1"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/frwrk-0.png"

Then recreate grub.conf. Off course copy the image file to the expected location:

# cp /usr/share/plymouth/themes/frwrk/frwrk-0.png /boot/

Updated on Mon Feb 9 10:34:11 IST 2026 More documentations here