Date: 03 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-RELEASE Feedback Message-ID: <xzpr9mqw09m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Randall Hopper's message of "Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:08:54 -0400" References: <19990626184311.A5290@ipass.net> <xzpu2rnw45a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990702170854.A2009@ipass.net>
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Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> 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
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