Thank you Saivann, I got into other problems like X failing after that (see my previous comment).
There was a problem in my menu.lst... I had included "noapic". To make gutsy run on my laptop I needed that. Hardy does not seem to require that anymore. I did a fresh install of Hardy. The new menu.lst does not have noapic. I do not have any problems with usplash anymore. -- Funky Colors on Shutdown Screen when using vga= modes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43223 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs