Comment 49 for bug 1970069

Yeah; so try forcing plymouth to the Ubuntu initrd like this:

echo "FRAMEBUFFER=y" | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash

Then if you rebuild the initrd you'll end up with plymouth in it.

This unfortunately DOUBLES the initramfs size; but it's because it puts all the drm modules in there.
Here is where simpledrm really shines. I belive /usr/share/initrams-tools/hooks/plymouth can be modified to stop including any drm modules and /usr/share/initramfs-tools/framebuffer can be totally dropped.

I believe this will guarantee plymouth wins the race.