Comment 14 for bug 529230

Marc: New for me, too. Plymouth is new as a standard feature, if I'm not mistaken, and many are working to minimize the number of times the screen flashes or clears and on getting boot processes to start as early as possible to minimize boot time.

If you don't mind me asking, what version of plymouth are you running? Can you look to see if /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/plymouth exists and if so what it contains. It should probably not exist. If it does exist it probably contains just two lines.