usplash has a timeout, so that if something takes longer than normally expected, the splash screen goes away so that the user can read the messages and see what is going on. Probably you have some filesystems that are slow to check.
I experienced this myself when I had two vfat filesystems in /etc/fstab. -- [PATCH] two simple errors in /etc/init.d/mountall.sh https://launchpad.net/bugs/28447 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
