This has nothing to do with plymouth anyway, plymouth is just an i/o system. If we want to display a message at boot time on the livecd, then some package that knows this *is* a liveCD needs to do this. Reassigning to casper.
** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) => casper (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/287599 Title: Everything is unexplainedly slower from live CD than from hard disk -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
