The Anthias boot splash shows on a Raspberry Pi 2

On a Raspberry Pi 2 installed with the install script, the screen showed plain text on black while the board booted, not the Anthias splash. The boot splash only waited 8 seconds for a display to appear, and on the Pi 2 the project tested, the display came up about 14 seconds into boot. By then the splash had settled on text. It now waits up to 30 seconds, so the Anthias splash appears.

The fix arrives when you upgrade with bin/run_upgrade.sh, which runs the installer again, and takes effect at the next reboot. Players installed from a disk image or Raspberry Pi Imager run balenaOS, which the installer doesn't set up, so this change doesn't touch them.

For contributors

The wait is DeviceTimeout=30 in the Plymouth config the splashscreen Ansible role installs. Plymouth reads its theme and settings from the copy in the initramfs, so the role now rebuilds the initramfs once, after every file is in place, instead of partway through.