diff --git a/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf b/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf
index ec0fa96f..1e421365 100644
--- a/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf
+++ b/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ KERNEL_CMDLINE[default]+=" quiet splash loglevel=0 systemd.show_status=false rd.
 # is fixed upstream.
 KERNEL_CMDLINE[default]+=" initramfs_async=0"
 
+# systemd 257 and later asks the console for its size with ANSI escape
+# sequences when PID 1 starts, and waits for the reply. With Plymouth holding
+# the VT the reply sometimes never comes, and the boot sits on a black screen
+# at "Starting Switch Root" until a key is pressed: about 1 boot in 10. A dumb
+# $TERM for the console makes systemd skip the query. Nothing visible changes
+# under "quiet splash". Drop it once a systemd release boots clean in a
+# repeated boot test.
+KERNEL_CMDLINE[default]+=" systemd.tty.term.console=dumb"
+
 CUSTOM_UKI_NAME="omarchy"
 ENABLE_LIMINE_FALLBACK=yes
 
diff --git a/migrations/1791581004.sh b/migrations/1791581004.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..233f3aeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/1791581004.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+echo "Stop the boot from waiting on a black screen for the console to answer"
+
+# systemd asks the console for its size when PID 1 starts and waits for the
+# reply. With Plymouth holding the screen the reply sometimes never comes, and
+# about 1 boot in 10 sits on a black screen until a key is pressed.
+# omarchy-defaults.conf now carries systemd.tty.term.console=dumb, which makes
+# systemd skip the query. The package has already written that file by the
+# time this runs; the boot image still holds the old command line until it is
+# rebuilt.
+
+defaults_conf="${OMARCHY_LIMINE_DEFAULTS_CONF:-/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf}"
+running_cmdline="${OMARCHY_RUNNING_CMDLINE:-/proc/cmdline}"
+rebuild_marker="${OMARCHY_LIMINE_REBUILD_MARKER:-/var/lib/omarchy/migrations/1791581004}"
+param="systemd.tty.term.console=dumb"
+
+omarchy-cmd-present limine-mkinitcpio || exit 0
+[[ -f $defaults_conf && -r $running_cmdline ]] || exit 0
+
+# The running kernel keeps its old command line until reboot, so a marker
+# records the machine-wide rebuild: another user's migration must not repeat
+# it before then, while a missing marker still retries an interrupted rebuild.
+[[ ! -e $rebuild_marker ]] || exit 0
+
+# A machine that boots with it already, or whose defaults were edited to leave
+# it out, has nothing to rebuild.
+[[ " $(<"$running_cmdline") " != *" $param "* ]] || exit 0
+grep -Eq "^KERNEL_CMDLINE\[default\]\+=\".*${param//./\\.}.*\"" "$defaults_conf" || exit 0
+
+echo "The booted kernel is missing $param; rebuilding the boot image"
+sudo limine-mkinitcpio
+
+# The boot menu is on the ESP, which /etc/default/limine names; /boot when it
+# does not, or is not there.
+limine_conf="${OMARCHY_LIMINE_CONF:-}"
+if [[ -z $limine_conf ]]; then
+  esp=""
+  if [[ -r /etc/default/limine ]]; then
+    esp=$(sed -n 's/^ESP_PATH=["'\'']\?\([^"'\'']*\).*/\1/p' /etc/default/limine | tail -n 1)
+  fi
+  limine_conf="${esp:-/boot}/limine.conf"
+fi
+
+# limine-mkinitcpio carries on past a kernel it could not build, a full boot
+# partition for one, and still exits 0. Done means a boot entry has the
+# parameter: without that the migration stays pending and the next update
+# tries again. A menu with no command lines in it (they are inside the boot
+# images then) has nothing to look at, and is taken at its word.
+if sudo grep -Eq '^[[:space:]]*cmdline:' "$limine_conf" 2>/dev/null &&
+  ! sudo grep -Eq "^[[:space:]]*cmdline:.*[[:space:]]${param//./\\.}([[:space:]]|\$)" "$limine_conf"; then
+  echo "The boot menu still has no entry with $param after the rebuild" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+sudo install -Dm644 /dev/null "$rebuild_marker"
diff --git a/test/shell.d/console-no-ansi-query-migration-test.sh b/test/shell.d/console-no-ansi-query-migration-test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c977546
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/shell.d/console-no-ansi-query-migration-test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# The migration that puts systemd.tty.term.console=dumb into effect on an
+# existing install: the package has already written the parameter into
+# omarchy-defaults.conf, so what is left is rebuilding the boot image, once per
+# machine, and only where it is needed.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/base-test.sh"
+
+migration="$ROOT/migrations/1791581004.sh"
+test_dir=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$test_dir"' EXIT
+stub_bin="$test_dir/bin"
+mkdir -p "$stub_bin"
+
+# sudo just drops the prefix; limine-mkinitcpio records that it ran, and fails
+# when told to.
+printf '#!/bin/bash\nexec "$@"\n' >"$stub_bin/sudo"
+# A rebuild writes the new command line into the boot menu, unless it is the
+# kind that builds nothing and still exits 0.
+cat >"$stub_bin/limine-mkinitcpio" <<'STUB'
+#!/bin/bash
+echo rebuilt >>"${REBUILDS:?}"
+[[ -z ${REBUILD_FAILS:-} ]] || exit 1
+[[ -n ${REBUILD_BUILDS_NOTHING:-} ]] || printf '  cmdline: %s\n' "${NEW_CMDLINE:?}" >"${LIMINE_CONF:?}"
+STUB
+chmod +x "$stub_bin"/*
+
+old_cmdline="root=PARTUUID=1 rw quiet splash initramfs_async=0"
+new_cmdline="$old_cmdline systemd.tty.term.console=dumb"
+
+run() { # booted cmdline, defaults conf
+  : >"$test_dir/rebuilds"
+  printf '%s\n' "$1" >"$test_dir/cmdline"
+  printf '  cmdline: %s\n' "$1" >"$test_dir/limine.conf"
+  PATH="$stub_bin:$ROOT/bin:$PATH" REBUILDS="$test_dir/rebuilds" \
+    LIMINE_CONF="$test_dir/limine.conf" NEW_CMDLINE="$new_cmdline" OMARCHY_LIMINE_CONF="$test_dir/limine.conf" \
+    OMARCHY_RUNNING_CMDLINE="$test_dir/cmdline" OMARCHY_LIMINE_DEFAULTS_CONF="$2" \
+    OMARCHY_LIMINE_REBUILD_MARKER="$test_dir/marker" bash -euo pipefail "$migration" >/dev/null
+}
+rebuilds() { wc -l <"$test_dir/rebuilds"; }
+
+# omarchy-migrate runs a migration with bash -euo pipefail, and so does run:
+# that is what stops a failed rebuild before the marker is written.
+if REBUILD_FAILS=1 run "$old_cmdline" "$ROOT/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf"; then
+  fail "a rebuild that failed was reported as a success"
+fi
+[[ $(rebuilds) == 1 && ! -e $test_dir/marker ]] || fail "a failed rebuild was marked as done"
+pass "a rebuild that fails stops the migration and leaves no marker"
+
+# limine-mkinitcpio exits 0 past a kernel it could not build.
+if REBUILD_BUILDS_NOTHING=1 run "$old_cmdline" "$ROOT/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf"; then
+  fail "a rebuild that changed nothing was reported as a success"
+fi
+[[ ! -e $test_dir/marker ]] || fail "a rebuild that changed nothing was marked as done"
+pass "a rebuild that exits 0 without changing the boot menu leaves the migration pending"
+
+run "$old_cmdline" "$ROOT/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf"
+[[ $(rebuilds) == 1 && -e $test_dir/marker ]] ||
+  fail "a machine booted without the parameter did not get its boot image rebuilt"
+pass "the next run rebuilds the boot image, with the packaged defaults, and marks it"
+
+run "$old_cmdline" "$ROOT/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf"
+[[ $(rebuilds) == 0 ]] || fail "the rebuild ran a second time before a reboot"
+pass "the rebuild runs once per machine, not once per user"
+
+rm -f "$test_dir/marker"
+run "$new_cmdline" "$ROOT/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf"
+[[ $(rebuilds) == 0 && ! -e $test_dir/marker ]] || fail "a machine that already boots with the parameter was rebuilt"
+pass "a machine that already boots with the parameter is left alone"
+
+grep -v "tty.term.console" "$ROOT/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf" >"$test_dir/edited.conf"
+run "$old_cmdline" "$test_dir/edited.conf"
+[[ $(rebuilds) == 0 ]] || fail "a machine whose defaults leave the parameter out was rebuilt anyway"
+pass "a machine whose defaults were edited to leave the parameter out is left alone"
+
+# No Limine: the stand-in goes, and the PATH holds only what the migration
+# needs, so a limine-mkinitcpio installed on the machine running this test is
+# not found either.
+rm "$stub_bin/limine-mkinitcpio"
+mkdir -p "$test_dir/tools"
+for tool in bash grep install cat sed tail; do ln -s "$(command -v "$tool")" "$test_dir/tools/$tool"; done
+: >"$test_dir/rebuilds"
+printf '%s\n' "$old_cmdline" >"$test_dir/cmdline"
+PATH="$stub_bin:$ROOT/bin:$test_dir/tools" REBUILDS="$test_dir/rebuilds" \
+  OMARCHY_RUNNING_CMDLINE="$test_dir/cmdline" OMARCHY_LIMINE_DEFAULTS_CONF="$ROOT/etc/limine-entry-tool.d/omarchy-defaults.conf" \
+  OMARCHY_LIMINE_REBUILD_MARKER="$test_dir/marker" "$test_dir/tools/bash" -euo pipefail "$migration" >/dev/null
+[[ ! -e $test_dir/marker ]] || fail "a machine without Limine was marked as rebuilt"
+pass "a machine without Limine is left alone"
diff --git a/test/shell.d/limine-defaults-test.sh b/test/shell.d/limine-defaults-test.sh
index 21adc94f..f69e9535 100644
--- a/test/shell.d/limine-defaults-test.sh
+++ b/test/shell.d/limine-defaults-test.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ grep -Fq 'KERNEL_CMDLINE[default]+=" initramfs_async=0"' "$packaged_defaults" ||
   fail "the packaged Limine defaults still unpack the initramfs synchronously"
 pass "packaged Limine defaults keep Plymouth alive at the LUKS prompt"
 
+grep -Fxq 'KERNEL_CMDLINE[default]+=" systemd.tty.term.console=dumb"' "$packaged_defaults" ||
+  fail "the packaged Limine defaults let PID 1 wait for the console to answer a size query"
+pass "packaged Limine defaults keep PID 1 from waiting on the console"
+
 grep -Fxq 'BOOT_ORDER="linux-t2, linux-omarchy, linux-omarchy-*, *, *fallback, Snapshots"' "$packaged_defaults" ||
   fail "packaged Limine defaults protect T2 Macs and prefer the exact Omarchy kernel elsewhere"
 pass "packaged Limine defaults protect T2 Macs and prefer the exact Omarchy kernel elsewhere"