Comment 3 for bug 885358

I am attempting to set up a similar solution, and have run into the same problem.
I tried removing "quiet splash" from the kernel command line, in case it was blocking the tty. That didn't work, so I disabled plymouth, (moved /bin/plymouth to plymouth.old, since apt-get wasn't working) which didn't help either.

I am using Linux Mint 16, but I don't think that makes a difference, especially since this bug has been open since 2011 for some reason?