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[odin-beta] Boot "error: Unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon"

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Description

## Description of Problem:
There seems to be 2 errors on the boot splash screen.

The `error: Unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon` appears on both on the live CD, and the finished installation;
The `Failed to start Show Plymouth Boot Screen` only appears in a completed installation.

`plymouth` cannot be found in `journalctl -xe` nor `dmesg`
`/var/log/boot.log` does not exist, and thus I cannot see what happened on boot.

**Screenshot of boot screen**
![Screenshot from 2021-05-09 22-02-13](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25283178/117575181-45e40b00-b113-11eb-9b59-26db46306002.png)

**Screenshot of `systemctl status plymouth-start`**
![Screenshot from 2021-05-09 22-10-26](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25283178/117575200-614f1600-b113-11eb-913b-2cc17616d2f4.png)

## Expected behaviour:
The elementaryOS boot splash screen should be displayed on screen, then "boot normally"
`/var/log/boot.log` should also exist (correct me if I am wrong)

## What I tried
Some searching around suggests that it is a kernel incompatibility (for some reason).
As such I downgraded the kernel from `5.8.0-50-generic` to `5.8.0-49-generic`. The errors stopped appearing, but the splash screen is still not showing (might be a separate issue altogether).

## Platform:
- elementaryOS 6.0 Public Beta `elementary-os-6.0-daily.20210430.iso`
- `linux-5.8.0-50-generic`
- VMware Workstation 15 (not sure if this might make a difference)

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