If have a long running Debian installation and once get bored with its, well lets call it conservative, looking boot process, you might, just like me, decide that you definitly need a nice splash animation for the boot process. In Debian world, this basically comes down to two alternatives: usplash and splashy. The latter being the more modern choice, a decision was made and installed pretty fast:
aptitude install splashy splashy-themes
Alright, so now i just needed to set a variable in /etc/defaults/splashy:
ENABLE_INITRAMFS=1