No background for disk encryption password screen?

Hello,

I've setup my laptop to use disk encryption. When I boot, it just comes to a white screen with black text for entering the password. I've see that Garuda is already set up with Plymouth and this allows for a themed password screen. Do others with encryption get a background image for the password or just the white screen? Doing some searches I see this was asked before but no real answer to it. I've went through Plymouth - ArchWiki and the Hooks and Modules seem to be set up correctly. Is there something else I'm missing? Any ideas or assistance would be great.

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System:
Kernel: 5.15.12-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=17b3115c-295b-4e59-bc77-e7690b75ee01 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=3f2807db-7cbb-4bd1-b7ee-9b53cfd8f8e3:luks-3f2807db-7cbb-4bd1-b7ee-9b53cfd8f8e3
root=/dev/mapper/luks-3f2807db-7cbb-4bd1-b7ee-9b53cfd8f8e3 splash
rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-e720795c-1579-408d-9539-4b17d1b2b666 loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-ef1xxx v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 887A v: 59.11 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
v: F.15 date: 08/17/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.0 Wh (79.5%) condition: 41.5/41.5 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 12.0 min: 11.3 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Zen 2 family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x68 (104) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x8608103
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1397 high: 1402 min/max: 1400/4370 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1397 2: 1396
3: 1402 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1395 8: 1397 9: 1397 10: 1397 11: 1397
12: 1396 13: 1397 14: 1397 15: 1397 16: 1397 bogomips: 57491
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Quanta HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 0408:5365 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 394mm (15.5")
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: AMD vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel
alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.12-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw89_pci v: N/A
modules: rtw89pci port: f000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:a85a
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0bda:385a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down
bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: no
address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 106.76 GiB (22.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDBRPG5000ANC-WRSN size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 111130WD temp: 27.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 449.02 GiB size: 449.02 GiB (100.00%)
used: 106.75 GiB (23.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-3f2807db-7cbb-4bd1-b7ee-9b53cfd8f8e3
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
used: 706 KiB (0.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 449.02 GiB size: 449.02 GiB (100.00%)
used: 106.75 GiB (23.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-3f2807db-7cbb-4bd1-b7ee-9b53cfd8f8e3
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 449.02 GiB size: 449.02 GiB (100.00%)
used: 106.75 GiB (23.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-3f2807db-7cbb-4bd1-b7ee-9b53cfd8f8e3
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 449.02 GiB size: 449.02 GiB (100.00%)
used: 106.75 GiB (23.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-3f2807db-7cbb-4bd1-b7ee-9b53cfd8f8e3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.04 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 16.48 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: luks-e720795c-1579-408d-9539-4b17d1b2b666
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 378 Uptime: 20m wakeups: 682 Memory: 15.04 GiB
used: 3.69 GiB (24.5%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: 1476 pacman: 1467 lib: 330 flatpak: 9
Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.12 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.11

I think you are missing the concept here, which probably makes it not worth the risk…

Which is also consistent with the outcomes of the manjaro thread referenced here

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Thanks. This answered my question, and you are correct, I wouldn't want an unencrypted /boot which would break the simplicity and protection of the snapshots in Garuda. I've marked your response as the solution. Thanks again.

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