Hey y’all,
Not sure if this belongs in support, as it’s more a “for fun” thing, but I’ve pretty much hit a wall and figure I might as well post here.
I’m running Parrot 5.0 on a live usb (with encrypted persistence). Kernel 5.14.0-9parrot1-amd64. KDE plasma 5.20.5 if that matters.
What I’ve been trying to do is change the plymouth boot animation (bootsplash?) to something of my own. I have been very unsuccessful. What it breaks down to, is after setting the new theme
plymouth-set-default-theme <my-theme>
i have to run
update-initramfs
(this can be done pretty easily with plymouth-set-default-theme <my-theme> -R according to the plymouth manual.)
Only issue is that update-initramfs (or the live version live-update-initramfs) does not work.
No matter what I try I am met with
I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media).
So that’s not fun. I’m getting to the point where I am unsure if it’s even possible to do. I poked around a lot, and frankly don’t remember most of it.
I’m around 80% sure that if I was able to properly unpack the filesystem.squashfs and chroot into it to update the initramfs without the file being on a live system (and then replace the old filesystem.sq with the new, cooler one i just made) it would work. That… is it’s own issue that I’m not even sure how to describe fully. It appears the directories don’t copy correctly. Also i can’t use unsquashfs on it.
Read on filesystem failed because Is a directory
Read on filesystem failed because Is a directory
Cant find a SQUASHFS superblock on /usr/lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
(yes it says it twice)
I ended up getting a second bootable drive to see if I could mess with mounting and unmounting, but I’ve had no results with it.
If anyone has any insight it would be greatly appreciated! Because I would love to make the little parrot into this cute gif I made.
Thanks!
~Catra <3