mkinitcpio - ArchWiki
wiki.archlinux.org › title › Mkinitcpiomkinitcpio is a Bash script used to create an initial ramdisk environment. From the mkinitcpio(8) man page: . The initial ramdisk is in essence a very small environment (early userspace) which loads various kernel modules and sets up necessary things before handing over control to init.
Plymouth - Manjaro
wiki.manjaro.org › index › Plymouth4 or 5 steps are needed to remove Plymouth. They are: Remove plymouth hook from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (For disk encryption users should plymouth-encrypt to encrypt) Regenerate the initramfs for your kernel with sudo mkinitcpio -p linux<version>. Remove the word splash & quiet from the Grub command line options via editing /etc/default/grub.