Comment 1 for bug 362185

Thanks for reporting this issue. I am unable to reproduce it, since I am unable to get a usplash screen in either Ubuntu or Xubuntu 8.10 using the vesa options at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer#Setting_different_framebuffer_resolutions_in_GRUB . I tested this on two hardware systems.

Were you able to see the uspash while booting 8.10 with these options? I think this is a bug against "linux" if you can.