Custom boot splash?

[altiris]

Id like to know how to replace the lines of code and the little raspberry pi icon that show during boot with something of a bootsplash with an arch logo. What software would I use for this and how I would do it?

[mashley]

Yes you can do this. You need to install Plymouth according to the instructions in the Arch Wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/plymouth

Once you have done this and configured the Plymouth theme to show the image you want, you also need to tell the boot process to use the initrd created by mkinitcpio, otherwise Plymouth will not be launched. In my case, I added "initrd=0x00f00000" to the beginning of /boot/cmdline.txt.

[mashley]

Also there are some better instructions here thanks to moonman and T4d3o:

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=7133