Comment 14 for bug 209416

When I corrupt the disk and boot without 'splash' (either immediately or after a few reboot loops), I get attached screenshot. This looks fine to me, I get the "RUN fsck MANUALLY" notice and a root shell.

However, Sam's screenshot is different: given the check percentage lines on his system, the usplash process is still running (since the usplash integration scripts kick in), but not displayed any more. This suggests that you booted with splash, but usplash crashed somewhere in between?