Comment 1 for bug 552393

After debugging with the user on IRC, so far there's nothing that points to plymouth as the cause of the problems. The system is very slow to boot, possibly due to an I/O bottleneck accessing the virtual CD remotely, but this apparently has not been a problem with previous Ubuntu releases in the same network.

Everything works and displays correctly in the initramfs, up to and including break=init. Typing 'exit' to continue here, the output stops; it's not clear if this is a very slow boot, or if the boot has stopped.

Differing configurations of 'quiet', 'splash', and 'nomodeset' don't appear to affect the outcome.