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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.