Comment 2 for bug 540801
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: X server starts before Plymouth | #2 |
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The problem here is the graphics drivers; on your system they're taking longer to load than it takes to check and mount the filesystem - so there's no reason to start the splash screen, since we can already start X.
On HDD-based systems this is worse because we do the ureadahead phase before loading drivers; thus it can take a long time for a splash to appear.
One "solution" is to use the initramfs and start plymouth as a critical step:
echo FRAMEBUFFER=y > /etc/initramfs-
update-initramfs -u
But that introduces a significant delay into boot just to get the splash screen up for the rest of it