I have a dual boot setup with windows and cachyOS. Everything was fine till yesterday but today morning my cachyOS stopped loading past the plymouth splash screen after the bootloader options. However, windows works fine. I tried a lot of things like setting the nosplash option and even tried using …

Have you tried this? [image] [Tutorial] Disable or Remove Plymouth (boot splash) FAQ and Tutorials Introduction CachyOS ISOs provide and enable plymouth by default. From the ArchWiki : Which is to say it is not a system-critical component.* It also has a na…

Thanks for the reply. I just tried it and it did not work.

While the plymouth screen is visible, you can press [ESC] to close it and see the screen output / status of booting … maybe this helps to sort out where it stops …

Thank you for the reply. I just tried it and I am getting: ACPI bios error (bug): could not resolve symbol [\_TZ.ETMD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20250404/psargs-332)

[image] Lumen: ACPI bios error (bug): could not resolve symbol [_TZ.ETMD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20250404/psargs-332) Google this, and you will find what you’re looking for.

I did search it up. It seems to be related to the thermal management stuff and it is a non critical error message and can be ignored for the most part. However, I did find some fixes incase it was causing booting issues. I tried them and it still did not work. I am starting to think my issue is towa…

[image] Lumen: I am starting to think my issue is towards the BIOS side rather than the OS side. Yes, I thought of that as well. You could check your “BIOS”: inxi -M and see if an upgrade is available (in case you haven’t already done so yourself).

CachysOS not loading past the plymouth splash screen

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Sunda-Spirit April 24, 2026, 12:40pm 2

Have you tried this?