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I had to take out quiet & splash again.
It seems like new CachyOS kernel updates reset it every update now!
manan 22
Maybe try using the sdboot-manage method:
It’s possible that when the new initrd is built after a kernel update the settings in /etc/sdboot-manage.conf are applied to it.
since the lastest clean (03/06/2026) install the packages plymouth-git, plymouth-kcm and cachyos-plymouth-theme (running cosmic-desktop only) were not located with pacman, and threw an error. removed the others and followied the guide - all is well.
Question - I’ve removed all of the packages mentioned to remove, removed the hook from mkinitcpio.conf and done the mkinitcpio -P, I’ve added and removed the respectively mentioned kernel boot parameters and updated grub, but the kernel messages still say this when I shut down:
And this when I boot up:
(As you can see, plymouth is indeed removed/not running/etc as I get no splash screen)
What the heck could still be trying to run plymouth?
cscs 25
Maybe check something like;
systemctl list-units --all | grep -i plymouth
You could similarly look around in journalctl.
aha! I presume I can safely disable all of these.
cscs 27
Maybe also triple check packages;
pacman -Qs plymouth
But if they are somehow left over with no ‘parent’ package then they could be removed manually.
Did have to do a heck of a lot of manual removal in the end. Possibly I didn’t do the initial removal correctly when I went about that >6mo ago. Either way, rebooted and confirmed I blew nothing up. 
Thanks!