  Bug#381104: not limited only to qemu and slow machines  My
laptop is fairly fast, but I can still reproduce this bug easily
enough, by booting it with a DVD in the drive. When the
initramfs first runs udev to prior to mounting the root
filesystem, it scans all drives including the DVD drive, this
involves spinning up the DVD, and my laptop's DVD drive is not
very fast to spin up, it apparently exceeds the 15 second
window, and usplash drops to text mode.  There are probably also
many init scripts that can take longer than 15 seconds between
displaying anything. DNS timeouts come to mind. Relying on a 15
second timeout, or any kind of timeout, seems very fragile, and
prone to producing very startling behavior to users.  see shy jo
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