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From: Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net>
To: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
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Subject: Re: Spash screen will not come up
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> --- David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> wrote:
> On 10/18/05, Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.  The problem that
> I have is that the
> > splash screen will not come up.  I have made sure
> that the bmp is 256
> > colors.  I have tried uncompressed and RLE
> compressed bmps.  The RLE
> > compressed versions worked in 4.x.  I have also
> added the approperiate
> > lines to /boot/loader.conf.  It seems that ever
> since I upgraded to 5.x,
> > I have not been able to get a splash screen.  Upon
> further examination,
> > I see this in the dmsg when the system boots:
> >
> > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (splash_bmp,
> 0xc06e4810, 0) error 2
> 
> I believe error 2 in this context means "No such
> file or directory".
> Maybe it's expecting the bmp to be somewhere else?
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That's interesting because I have specified the
absolute path of the bitmap file in /boot/loader.conf.