Want to speed up booting time? Disable the boot screen flash will be a good point. The easiest way to do this is using the Plymouth Manager. Just with one click and someone to shout “Hallelujah!” when you’re finished.
Install Plymouth Manager:
Click the link below and double-click on the package to install it via Ubuntu Software Center.
Disable Plymouth boot screen:
Once you installed plymouth manager, launch it from the Unity Dash. Then click on the disable button show as below:
You’ll be prompt to input user password in pop up terminal window.
That’s it. Enjoy!
A cli solution would be better as I don’t want to install the whole x11+gtk stack on a server just to disable plymouth that shouldn’t be installed on servers to begin with!
If you know which files this thing touches, please share.
Thanks!
Years later, on the 14.04 LTS, and at your own risk…
I disabled the plymouth upstart scripts,
sudo rename.ul .conf .conf.disabled /etc/init/plymouth*.conf
Then to figure out what it touches,
grep plymouth /etc/init/* -C 3
At this point, I really didn’t have much actually waiting on plymouth,
rc.conf waits for plymouth to shutdown when changing to runlevels 0, 1, or 6.
lightdm.conf, but I’m guessing most servers don’t have a dm installed.
Most of the other upstart scripts gracefully continue if plymouth isn’t present.