Quote Originally Posted by garvinrick4 View Post
I believe that is about right irrdev.


Scott James Remnant wrote on 2010-03-18: Re: X server starts before Plymouth #2 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-tools/conf.d/splash
update-initramfs -u
But that introduces a significant delay into boot just to get the splash screen up for the rest of it
I've got this "fix" in lucid and I did a before and after test with bootchart and the boot times did not change for me. nVidia 8600GT.