From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 10: 5:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3689237BDBF for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA02233; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:05:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:05:21 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: DuBBs2ooo Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Splash Screen Message-ID: <20000607190521.A2138@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Reply-To: K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl References: <200006071515.LAA06582@smtp-server.tampabay.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006071515.LAA06582@smtp-server.tampabay.rr.com>; from DuBBs2ooo@cfl.rr.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:15:16AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:15:16AM -0400, DuBBs2ooo wrote: > > I tried setting up the splash screen in the /boot/defaults/loader.conf file ^^^^^^^^^^ This file is not meant to be changed. Use /boot/loader.conf to put your overrides in there (it does not exist by default). My /boot/loader.conf looks like this: splash_bmp_load=YES bitmap_load=YES bitmap_name=beastie_nebula.bmp where beastie_nebula.bmp is a 320x200 bitmap with 8 bit color depth, residing in /boot. For larger resolutions you also need to load the vesa module (up to 1024x768). See 'man loader.conf' for more options and info. > and when the system rebooted it didn't display the screen, a message > flashed on about it but my system booted too fast and I didn't get the > chance to catch what it said...out of curiosity, what size should the > splash bitmap be and what do the settings in the splash screen section of > the loader.conf file need to be set to? > Sizes are rather limited; www.baldwin.cx/splash used to contain a set of splash screens that worked, but it appears down now. Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message