When Ubuntu is starting up, it shows some error log message on the screen.
I want to hide all these messages, and see only the Ubuntu GNOME loading logo on the screen. How can I do that?
The boot loader is using a piece of software called Plymouth.
To work correctly you need to use KMS compatible graphics drivers and sometimes just a bit of luck - in Ubuntu prior to 14.04 Plymouth hasn't really changed for 5+ years and is showing its age. It is being updated in 14.04 and hopefully will work in a wider number of cases.
If you are using proprietary graphics drivers (often NVIDIA or AMD) then these are currently not KMS based and can be a cause of a very short/missing boot Plymouth picture.
One technique I use is to force Plymouth to run in a rather old but still useful technique called a framebuffer.
With this you'll get a longer display of the picture - you'll still get one TTY switch when moving from Plymouth to GDM. This is not something you can workaround until the move to Wayland (assuming this promise is realised).
echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
sudo update-initramfs -u
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