(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #8) > Plymout has a patch called > Patch4: plymouth-only_use_fb_for_cirrus_bochs.patch After I removed this patch, I only could get output to the serial console. Does this more than it appears to? I found that plymouth forces text output at [1] because it cannot find the default tty file. There are two options I followed: 1) The default tty appers to be incorrectly set to tty1. I set it to tty0 to get a text prompt on the console, but no graphics. 2) I can force graphical output by adding 'plymouth.graphical' on the kernel command line. [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/blob/main/src/main.c?ref_type=heads#L2118