Comment 13 for bug 831752

It seems that this is caused by the splash+vt.handoff boot options. Apparently they are on by default, and the server cd uses a preseed to shut it off. The mini iso it seems does not do this. I discussed it in #ubuntu-devel, and there seemed to be consensus that either the option should default to off, and if you install one of the -desktop packages, it switch it on, or more likely, the vt.handoff machinery just needs ripped out and we run X.org on tty1 to avoid screen flicker like other distributions do.