Comment 25 for bug 535108

I did a few tests with Lucid beta running on VMWare. The videos of the startup sequence are attached. Please play them in vlc, mplayer plays them way to fast. In each case you can disregard the green screen and the VMWare logo. They seems to be specific to VMWare.

Test 1. The splash file as described in #18 is present, the system performs an fsck: Ugly message all over the place, the message about the disk check is flickering, no indication about the progress as we used to have.

Test 2. The splash file as described in #18 is not present, the system performs an fsck: Again, the messages are flickering. On a physical machine it's less apparent, but still noticeable.

Test 3. The splash file as described in #18 is not present, the system has an encrypted disc and has to ask for a password: Messages all over the place.

I'm not impressed by plymouth. The old usplash was much tidier since you could specify a box in which all the messages were displayed.