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Grub Flicker Free Boot, I still see a black screen in this order: BIOS --> Grub --> OEM splash --> Black screen --> OEM splash + Fedora logo --> GDM I Effectively, it's i915. If I press F8 during boot, GRUB appears approximately at the My system was upgraded from Fedora 29 to Fedora 30 and I noticed that flicker-free booting was a new feature coming with Fedora 30. GRUB has vga=current afaik. I'd spent a good many hours on other grub/plymouth wiki articles When I start my laptop the screen with the Linux mint logo starts flickering, and nothing happens, I have to close the laptop by pressing the power button and then it might gets in Hi 👋, I am having some trouble getting a flicker-free boot on an X1C 8th gen. Unfortunately, my installation has anything but a flicker-free boot. xxxxx Can anyone provide advice and/or settings to make the desired results below, preferably without flickering between? Dell Logo GRUB splash BGRT Dell Logo with spinner Login screen Desired The thing is i tried every possible thing that can be done to make smooth boot: by setting kernel parameter to nomodeset the boot time get reduced drastically also the plymouth got much smoother Update: During boot, there is a barely noticeable flick of the screen in the beginning while the OEM logo is there. I can't even hide the grub menu for good. xxxxx What if we keep Plymouth unchanged and only apply flicker-free boot to the kernel/grub? That means avoiding the blank purple screen which for modern systems with SSDs The flicker may happen when there is a hand-over of screen from firmware → boot loader → kernel → display manager and it is a wellknown issue which plymouth is designed to hide. I was playing around a bit, trying the get flicker free booting working on my F31 equipped Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7. A typical UEFI boot of a Linux system looks like this: * firmware shows a boot logo * shim loads, clears the screen * grub loads, shows a text menu * kernel efifb loads, clears the screen, may show a bunch /etc/default/grub is missing on Silverblue 41 fresh install may be relevant and contain useful information. guxn5xi 0hvx 4e4a i8c pad0 ys kekwj 2btp manws sli