How to enable a bootsplash screen

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Thu, April 13, 2006 10:53 am, Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've followed
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2003-10/msg00004.html to
> enable a boot splash, but it didn't work.
>
> This is an excerpt of my /boot/defaults/loader.conf:
>
> [..]
> splash_bmp_load="YES"
> splash_pcx_load="NO"
> vesa_load="YES"
> bitmap_load="YES"
> bitmap_name="dfly.bmp"
> bitmap_type="splash_image_data"
> [..]
> module_path="/;/boot;/modules"
> [..]
>
> The bootsplash bitmap is in place, too:
> SchlesisPC# ls -al /boot/dfly.bmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  481078 Apr 10 18:54 /boot/dfly.bmp
>
> When I boot, I didn't get a bootsplash. I get, as expected, the selection
> menu
> for DFly's boot options (e. g. with acpi, without acpi, ...) and after
> selecting one, I get the usual boot messages on screen. The necessary
> modules
> are loaded at boot time:
>> kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   29 0xc0100000 5b56ac   kernel
>  2    1 0xc06b6000 3068     splash_bmp.ko
>  3    1 0xc06ba000 55b8     vesa.ko
> [..]
>
> What do I miss?
>
> Thomas
>