From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 11:52:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7541065670 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:52:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wayne.mitchell.iz@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com (mail-fx0-f44.google.com [209.85.161.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322908FC08 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxe6 with SMTP id 6so3813717fxe.17 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:52:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=L054NxQOU6A0kGYkNZPqh+O5Ig2thBh5Nd4MKcnM+0A=; b=qwK/oXnLwAfuI0RzZ3l96hPvTkrTvEPPTmJYJ/L+D3jyc0KgUnLo4iDaF6VgDaWcUn S+FgF4Bcj7CbSQY4FbR8iZtfp34X4Mvm7RjP1gX7X/hoy4LG0oIC9dAamjp/qzK8vsRr i8D+MeuX3C9bRPmCSV12IgGBdT97lcHLY9qlo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.40.198 with SMTP id l6mr3017826fae.14.1310903552078; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.78.193 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:52:32 +0000 Message-ID: From: wayne mitchell To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:51:52 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: boot/loader splash image X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:52:33 -0000 hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup ------------------------------------------------------------ have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...) and followed instructions using following values in /boot/loader.conf : bitmap_load="YES" # have tried commenting this out also vesa_load="YES" splash_bmp_load="YES" bitmap_name="/boot/splash.bmp" the splash.bmp size is about 900x700 does not work am using /boot/loader.rc as preset (includes loader.4th and beastie.4th)