How to remove plymouth?

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I disabled plymouth and the boot no longer hangs. VM booted normally 20 times in a row. Thanks again.

For anybody trying to do this, these are the steps I used. (They combine the “Plymouth - Manjaro” page linked at the top of the original post, cscs’s commands, and Teo on not having to uninstall packages).

  1. Remove plymouth hook from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Line from which to remove plymouth:

HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard keymap consolefont plymouth filesystems fsck"
  1. Regenerate the initramfs for your kernel
sudo mkinitcpio -P

On -P, see mkinitcpio manpage

  1. Remove the word splash & quiet from the Grub command line options via editing /etc/default/grub
sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Line from which to remove the two words:

RUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3"
  1. Update Grub config
sudo update-grub
  1. I did not remove plymouth packages (per Teo above).

Just for completeness, the command for removal is said to be:

sudo pacman -Rsn plymouth plymouth-theme-manjaro

That was it!

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