[mattlach]

Fritsch, have yu had any luck installing plymouth with your setup procedure in the first post? Everytime I enable a splash (including ones from the ubuntu repos) I get a error alog the lines of 'a file named ".so" cannot be found, skipping theme'. Thought Id check here before filing a bug report, because you usually include a section for plymouth in your guides. Cheers

Same issue here. I did not investigate it further. I just boot with without splash as it needs max 3 seconds anyways.

I spent some time looking into it today.

I found this over on the Ubuntu Forums and played around with it a bit.

The original suggestion for a fix didn't work for me. No matter what I do, I get the default Ubuntu 16.04 text splash.

I wonder if the difference here, why the posters fix worked for him, and not for me has to do with differences between Desktop and Server images.

Either way, it's not a big deal. As you say, only a couple of seconds. I do like having at least the Ubuntu one up there for the boot though, as it covers up the ugly LXD error that 16.04 server edition displays on every boot.