IMHO, the boot progress messages can be completely removed. They serve no purpose whatsoever to the end user.
Although you might need to change the progress bar to something that's constantly animated (like Windows's startup bar) so that people know the bootup is still progressing, if it takes a long time for some reason. -- usplash messages look a little bland and a little intimidating https://launchpad.net/bugs/39173 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
