Comment 19 for bug 765735

Thanks Steve for taking the time to explain. This is exactly it - people think that plymouth is only "annoying graphical stuff" without realizing that upstart is replacing the System-V init entirely - already has for the symlinks in /etc/init.d. And the way upstart communicates with the display (text or graphical - does not matter) is through plymouth. Which is why if you do a hacked removal of plymouth, upstart jobs don't show up on the boot messages - only the old System-V jobs do.

I have only ubuntu servers here but will take a look at desktop this week. If desktop has a progress bar during fscks, then I guess one approach might be to merge that with details so that we can toggle between them using <esc>? I don't think anybody would mind that much, so long as we have at least some way to get the progress info (graphical or otherwise).