Edit: Thanks for pointing it out I have changed those instructions and tested them on my system.
Jeshu please follow the below post
I hope you didnât uninstall dracut while installing mkinitcpio. Please remove mkinitcpio and check dracut is properly installed or not by running
sudo pacman -S garuda-dracut-support
It should reinstall everything dracut related if it was removed.
Then rebuild initramfs
sudo dracut-rebuild
And that should be it. Reboot and check if adding splash back to kernel parameter in grub allows it to boot or not. If it does you can make it permanent if it doesnât well no harm done you can just reboot normally.
Well yeah you need to rebuild your initramfs for it to work properly. Afterall removing the splash parameter is to disable plymouth.
Just came here to say thank you to @Jeshu . I run two workstations on Garuda (one for personal work, one for work, both with Nvidia GPUs) and have encountered black screen loading ramdisk problem. I decided to simply reinstall Garuda on the first one with garuda-dr460nized-linux-zen-230501.iso, updated to latest packages, and, interestingly enough, the problem persists only when I manually select the the first option in the GRUB menu. But when GRUB boots automatically into the first default option in the menu (after default 5 seconds, or something like that), Garuda boots just fine. I will probably remove the splash option once I get back to the station.
On the second workstation, I followed exactly the steps that @Jeshu described and that fixed the broken install for me. Just removed splash option from GRUB commands, no re-installation was necessary.
