Can't get graphical boot

[hank863]

I cannot get Plymouth to use the "charge" boot animation. It currently only shows the three lines, one white and two that are different shades of blue, across the bottom of the screen.

I have installed the NVIDIA proprietary drivers (nouveau refuses to work with my chip) and disabled nouveau with the following command:

dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Then I ran

sudo grub2-mkfont --output=/boot/grub2/DejaVuSansMono.pf2 --size=24 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf

and added the following to my /etc/default/grub

GRUB_VIDEO_BACKEND="vbe"
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
GRUB_FONT_PATH="/boot/grub2/DejaVuSansMono.pf2"
GRUB_GFXMODE="1400x900x32"

and I generated a new grub.cfg with

sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

I used the following two commands to change the Plymouth theme:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme charge
sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

This process worked perfectly in Fedora 16 and resulted in grub's font being changed to DejaVuSansMono and working boot animations, but I cannot get either of those two things to work in Fedora 17 beta. When I installed Fedora 17, I did a wipe and clean install.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

[secipolla]

GRUB_GFXMODE is only for the GRUB menu screen.

You either set
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="keep"
so it uses the same settings as GRUB_GFXMODE or remove GRUB_GFXMODE altogether and set
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="1400x900x32"

[hank863]

I removed the GRUB_GFXMODE line, added GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="1400x900x32" to my /etc/default/grub, ran 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg', rebooted, and nothing changed :/

[hank863]

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