How To Fix Plymouth in Ubuntu 14.04
Channel: midfingr
Date: 29/04/2014

Plymouth is the splash screen you seen when Ubuntu boots. If you install proprietary video drivers; i.e. Catalyst of Nvidia, the splash screen is disabled.

UPDATE: Added hwinfo to dropbox in case files become unavailable:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t7unmxz68c1knol/fix_plymouth.tar.gz

Here is what you need to do to get the splash screen (Plymouth) back.

First install v86d

hwinfo install steps:

1. libhal1_0.5.14-8_amd64.deb
2. libhd16_16.0-2.2_amd64.deb
3. hwinfo_16.0-2.2_amd64.deb

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/121675171/fixplymouth
chmod +x fixplymouth
./fixplymouth