Sorry, thus got buried in my email.

Booting after hitting a key was with the quiet and splash options.

Also after hitting a key and changing the parameters to live-nosplash, I
got the desktop as well.

It seems that the menu just needs a key pressed to start it?
 On May 14, 2013 4:35 PM, "Steve Langasek" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:43:35PM -0000, Charles Ford wrote:
> > Menu comes up perfectly with just hitting a key there, and I've booted
> and
> > running great.
>
> I'm afraid that doesn't answer the question.  Did you boot with or without
> the 'quiet' and 'splash' options?  Did you see text scrolling by at boot
> time, or not?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1175875
>
> Title:
>   Saucy: unable to boot - plymouth has no boot screen but purple showed
>   up
>
> Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   Downloaded the daily and tried booting.
>
>   The DVD initialized, gave me a purple blank screen with the
>   accessibility and keyboard icons at the bottom, then the screen went
>   black.
>
>
>
>   Hardware information:
>
>   charlie@breakfast:~$ sudo lshw
>   [sudo] password for charlie:
>   breakfast
>       description: Portable Computer
>       product: Inspiron 9300
>       vendor: Dell Inc.
>       serial: 8XT4K71
>       width: 32 bits
>       capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3
>       configuration: boot=normal chassis=portable
> uuid=44454C4C-5800-1054-8034-B8C04F4B3731
>     *-core
>          description: Motherboard
>          product: 0C5668
>          vendor: Dell Inc.
>          physical id: 0
>          serial: .8XT4K71.CN129615532069.
>        *-firmware
>             description: BIOS
>             vendor: Dell Inc.
>             physical id: 0
>             version: A02
>             date: 02/23/2005
>             size: 64KiB
>             capacity: 512KiB
>             capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot
> bootselect int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial
> int17printer int10video acpi usb agp smartbattery biosbootspecification
> netboot
>        *-cpu
>             description: CPU
>             product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
>             vendor: Intel Corp.
>             physical id: 400
>             bus info: cpu@0
>             version: 6.13.8
>             slot: Microprocessor
>             size: 2GHz
>             capacity: 2GHz
>             width: 32 bits
>             clock: 133MHz
>             capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce
> cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe
> nx bts est tm2 cpufreq
>           *-cache:0
>                description: L1 cache
>                physical id: 700
>                size: 8KiB
>                capacity: 8KiB
>                capabilities: internal write-back data
>           *-cache:1
>                description: L2 cache
>                physical id: 701
>                size: 2MiB
>                capacity: 2MiB
>                clock: 66MHz (15.0ns)
>                capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies unified
>        *-memory
>             description: System Memory
>             physical id: 1000
>             slot: System board or motherboard
>             size: 2GiB
>           *-bank:0
>                description: DIMM DDR Synchronous
>                physical id: 0
>                slot: DIMM_A
>                size: 1GiB
>                width: 64 bits
>           *-bank:1
>                description: DIMM DDR Synchronous
>                physical id: 1
>                slot: DIMM_B
>                size: 1GiB
>                width: 64 bits
>        *-pci
>             description: Host bridge
>             product: Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM
> Controller
>             vendor: Intel Corporation
>             physical id: 100
>             bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
>             version: 03
>             width: 32 bits
>             clock: 33MHz
>           *-pci:0
>                description: PCI bridge
>                product: Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode
> bus_master cap_list
>                configuration: driver=pcieport
>                resources: irq:40 ioport:d000(size=4096)
> memory:dfd00000-dfefffff memory:d0000000-d7ffffff
>              *-display
>                   description: VGA compatible controller
>                   product: RV370/M22 [Mobility Radeon X300]
>                   vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
>                   physical id: 0
>                   bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
>                   version: 00
>                   width: 32 bits
>                   clock: 33MHz
>                   capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller
> bus_master cap_list rom
>                   configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
>                   resources: irq:41 memory:d0000000-d7ffffff
> ioport:de00(size=256) memory:dfdf0000-dfdfffff memory:dfe00000-dfe1ffff
>           *-usb:0
>                description: USB controller
>                product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1d
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: uhci bus_master
>                configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
>                resources: irq:16 ioport:bf80(size=32)
>           *-usb:1
>                description: USB controller
>                product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1d.1
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: uhci bus_master
>                configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
>                resources: irq:17 ioport:bf60(size=32)
>           *-usb:2
>                description: USB controller
>                product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1d.2
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: uhci bus_master
>                configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
>                resources: irq:18 ioport:bf40(size=32)
>           *-usb:3
>                description: USB controller
>                product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1d.3
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: uhci bus_master
>                configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
>                resources: irq:19 ioport:bf20(size=32)
>           *-usb:4
>                description: USB controller
>                product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Controller
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1d.7
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
>                configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0
>                resources: irq:16 memory:ffa80800-ffa80bff
>           *-pci:1
>                description: PCI bridge
>                product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1e
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
>                version: d3
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
>                resources: ioport:2000(size=4096) memory:dfc00000-dfcfffff
> ioport:80000000(size=67108864)
>              *-network:0
>                   description: Ethernet interface
>                   product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
>                   vendor: Broadcom Corporation
>                   physical id: 0
>                   bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
>                   logical name: eth0
>                   version: 02
>                   serial: 00:12:3f:cf:cc:99
>                   size: 10Mbit/s
>                   capacity: 100Mbit/s
>                   width: 32 bits
>                   clock: 33MHz
>                   capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
> mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
>                   configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
> driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=half latency=64 link=no multicast=yes
> port=twisted pair speed=10Mbit/s
>                   resources: irq:18 memory:dfcee000-dfceffff
>              *-pcmcia
>                   description: CardBus bridge
>                   product: RL5c476 II
>                   vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
>                   physical id: 1
>                   bus info: pci@0000:03:01.0
>                   version: b3
>                   width: 64 bits
>                   clock: 33MHz
>                   capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
>                   configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176
> maxlatency=5 mingnt=128
>                   resources: iomemory:b00704030-b0070402f irq:19
> memory:84000000-84000fff ioport:2000(size=256) ioport:2400(size=256)
> memory:80000000-83ffffff memory:88000000-8bffffff
>              *-firewire
>                   description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
>                   product: R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
>                   vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
>                   physical id: 1.1
>                   bus info: pci@0000:03:01.1
>                   version: 08
>                   width: 32 bits
>                   clock: 33MHz
>                   capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
>                   configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=64
> maxlatency=4 mingnt=2
>                   resources: irq:18 memory:dfced800-dfcedfff
>              *-generic
>                   description: SD Host controller
>                   product: R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
>                   vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
>                   physical id: 1.2
>                   bus info: pci@0000:03:01.2
>                   version: 17
>                   width: 32 bits
>                   clock: 33MHz
>                   capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
>                   configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=64
>                   resources: irq:17 memory:dfced700-dfced7ff
>              *-network:1
>                   description: Wireless interface
>                   product: AR5416 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008
> 802.11(a)bgn]
>                   vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
>                   physical id: 3
>                   bus info: pci@0000:03:03.0
>                   logical name: wlan0
>                   version: 01
>                   serial: 00:1d:6a:63:9a:3c
>                   width: 32 bits
>                   clock: 66MHz
>                   capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
> wireless
>                   configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k
> driverversion=3.8.0-19-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.145 latency=168
> link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
>                   resources: irq:17 memory:dfcf0000-dfcfffff
>           *-multimedia
>                description: Multimedia audio controller
>                product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio
> Controller
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1e.2
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.2
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
>                configuration: driver=snd_intel8x0 latency=0
>                resources: irq:16 ioport:ed00(size=256)
> ioport:ec40(size=64) memory:dffffe00-dfffffff memory:dffffd00-dffffdff
>           *-isa
>                description: ISA bridge
>                product: 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1f
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                capabilities: isa bus_master
>                configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
>                resources: irq:0
>           *-ide
>                description: IDE interface
>                product: 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1f.2
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 66MHz
>                capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list
>                configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
>                resources: irq:17 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6
> ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:bfa0(size=16)
>           *-serial UNCLAIMED
>                description: SMBus
>                product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus
> Controller
>                vendor: Intel Corporation
>                physical id: 1f.3
>                bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
>                version: 03
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 33MHz
>                configuration: latency=0
>                resources: ioport:10c0(size=32)
>        *-scsi:0
>             physical id: 1
>             logical name: scsi0
>             capabilities: emulated
>           *-disk
>                description: ATA Disk
>                product: TOSHIBA MK8026GA
>                vendor: Toshiba
>                physical id: 0.0.0
>                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
>                logical name: /dev/sda
>                version: PA00
>                serial: 55939705T
>                size: 74GiB (80GB)
>                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
>                configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512
> signature=0004e10e
>              *-volume:0
>                   description: EXT4 volume
>                   vendor: Linux
>                   physical id: 1
>                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
>                   logical name: /dev/sda1
>                   logical name: /
>                   version: 1.0
>                   serial: 88acf9a9-3649-48c0-a03f-f940f6e1a904
>                   size: 71GiB
>                   capacity: 71GiB
>                   capabilities: primary bootable journaled
> extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4
> ext2 initialized
>                   configuration: created=2013-04-12 03:25:00
> filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2013-05-02 22:01:10
> mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
> mounted=2013-05-02 22:01:10 state=mounted
>              *-volume:1
>                   description: Extended partition
>                   physical id: 2
>                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
>                   logical name: /dev/sda2
>                   size: 2935MiB
>                   capacity: 2935MiB
>                   capabilities: primary extended partitioned
> partitioned:extended
>                 *-logicalvolume
>                      description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
>                      physical id: 5
>                      logical name: /dev/sda5
>                      capacity: 2935MiB
>                      capabilities: nofs
>        *-scsi:1
>             physical id: 2
>             logical name: scsi1
>             capabilities: emulated
>           *-cdrom
>                description: DVD-RAM writer
>                product: DVD+-RW GSA-T40N
>                vendor: HL-DT-ST
>                physical id: 0.0.0
>                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
>                logical name: /dev/cdrom
>                logical name: /dev/cdrw
>                logical name: /dev/dvd
>                logical name: /dev/sr0
>                version: A101
>                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
>                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
>     *-battery
>          product: DELL 00
>          vendor: Sanyo
>          physical id: 1
>          slot: Sys. Battery Bay
>          capacity: 66000mWh
>          configuration: voltage=11.1V
>
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