From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 3 2:28:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22CE14C81 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 02:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA47695; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 11:28:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Randall Hopper Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-RELEASE Feedback References: <19990626184311.A5290@ipass.net> <19990702170854.A2009@ipass.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 03 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: Randall Hopper's message of "Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:08:54 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 40 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Randall Hopper writes: > Even after reading it though, I didn't get it going. It says you can run > this from the loader prompt: > > load kernel > load -t splash_image_data chuck.bmp > load splash_bmp > > You can't (or I couldn't at least). "load kernel" goes off and does just > that, never returning to the loader prompt. So thinking about patching > loader.rc, I followed splash(4)'s directions and tried to consult the > loader.rc(5) man page (to learn what to add where, what not to change, > etc.). But there is no loader.rc man page. There is a loader(8) man page. 'load kernel' loads the kernel in memory. It does not boot the kernel. 'boot' and 'autoboot' do that. > /boot/* sounds low-enough level that I didn't want to risk modifying it > without knowing exactly what I was doing and the potential consequences > (i.e. how much trouble was it going to be to recover from an error). I > still didn't know enough at this point, so I never did get the splash > screen going. > > Any tips? Put the following in /etc/loader.rc: load kernel load -t splash_image_data chuck.bmp load splash_bmp autoboot 5 (If you want to use a PCX image instead of BMP, just replace splash_bmp with splash_pcx. It has a smaller footprint.) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message