I would like to have a splash display during boot. I have edited the loader.rc to include only include /boot/loader.4th and start. The loader.conf, i put only splash_bmp_load="YES" and bitmap_load="YES". It dosent work. Where am I going wrong. Any help appreciated. Daniel - BSD rocks!
On 4/6/06, Daniel Anson <danson@rackspace.com> wrote:> I would like to have a splash display during boot. I have edited the > loader.rc to include only include /boot/loader.4th and start. The > loader.conf, i put only splash_bmp_load="YES" and bitmap_load="YES". It > dosent work. Where am I going wrong.loader_logo="beastie" loader_color="YES">From memory, though, you only need one of them. Using both doesn'thurt. It'll depend on which version you're running, though. Dave. -- "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."
Daniel Anson wrote:> I would like to have a splash display during boot. I have edited the > loader.rc to include only include /boot/loader.4th and start. The > loader.conf, i put only splash_bmp_load="YES" and bitmap_load="YES". It > dosent work. Where am I going wrong. > > > Any help appreciated. > > Daniel - BSD rocks!These settings work fine on my system: # splash screen settings splash_bmp_load="YES" bitmap_load="YES" bitmap_name="/boot/splash.bmp" Note that you can only use 256 colour Bitmap images.
Quoting "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>:> > > Daniel Anson wrote: >> I would like to have a splash display during boot. I have edited the >> loader.rc to include only include /boot/loader.4th and start. The >> loader.conf, i put only splash_bmp_load="YES" and bitmap_load="YES". It >> dosent work. Where am I going wrong. >> >> >> Any help appreciated. >> >> Daniel - BSD rocks! > > These settings work fine on my system: > # splash screen settings > splash_bmp_load="YES" > bitmap_load="YES" > bitmap_name="/boot/splash.bmp" > > Note that you can only use 256 colour Bitmap images.and size should be 320x200 Last time I used one anyway. --Chris> _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >-- Microsoft: Disc space -- the final frontier! ----------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p12 (SMP - 900x2) Tue Mar 7 19:37:23 PST 2006 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Chris wrote:> Quoting "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>: > >> >> >> Daniel Anson wrote: >>> I would like to have a splash display during boot. I have edited the >>> loader.rc to include only include /boot/loader.4th and start. The >>> loader.conf, i put only splash_bmp_load="YES" and bitmap_load="YES". It >>> dosent work. Where am I going wrong. >>> >>> >>> Any help appreciated. >>> >>> Daniel - BSD rocks! >> >> These settings work fine on my system: >> # splash screen settings >> splash_bmp_load="YES" >> bitmap_load="YES" >> bitmap_name="/boot/splash.bmp" >> >> Note that you can only use 256 colour Bitmap images. > > and size should be 320x200 > Last time I used one anyway. > > --Chris >You are wrong. I use 1024x768 because that is the native screen resolution of my Notebook, but any VESA supported resolution should work.
Hi, i have followed the thread in freebsd-stable. I would point you to my sources of splash-screen-handling, the second Page also offers some nice splash images, my preferred is emily_black_1024 http://wiki.unixboard.de/index.php/FreeBSD_-_Bootvorgang_versch?nern/verk?rzen http://www.baldwin.cx/splash/ my difference from loader.conf: vesa_load="YES" # this allows other resolutions than 300x200 see also the man-page of vidcontrol and the output from vidcontrol -i mode|less best regards michael