In past installs, the boot splash HAS shown. I checked the services and plymouth-start.service failed to start. Here is the journalctl logs of the service. https://pastebin.com/Z8EMv7xt There is also another service that fails to start called just in case this is why plymouth doesn't work. and the logs for this are. [Edits] 1. Sun, Sep 19 13:46 -- Changed 'boot menu' to 'boot splash' REASON: Mistake that would cause confusion