The black blinking cursor wait is actually a bit of a funny ironic problem: on machines that do not support kernel mode setting, Plymouth only puts up a splash once it has loaded. However, loading Plymouth requires quite a bit of disk activity which benefits from ureadahead.
So, the dilemma is, we can either work hard to throw up a splash early and cause bootup to take longer, or make bootup faster at the cost of you staring at a blank screen longer. The developers chose the latter compromise for now. Note that when your computer boots with Upstart, a lot of tasks are starting in parallel, so bootup messages don't make as much sense as they did when bootup was a one by one ordeal. -- [Jaunty] splashy 0.3.13-3ubuntu1 fresh install conflicts with lsb-base https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328089 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
