Bootsplash on VT ?

Ordoban · Jan 28, 2015

I want to have a nice boot splash image, but it seems the old splash_bmp_load="YES"... options does not work anymore on VT. I have seen, there is some splash stuff on VT too. There is even a build in image in /sys/dev/vt/logo/logo_freebsd.c

How can iI use / activate this?

What iI must do to activate an other splash image?

Juanitou · Jan 28, 2015

There was a recent Google Summer of Code project on improving the bootsplash: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/Bootsplash

It worked well with sc(4), but I don’t know if it applies to vt(4). You could contact the author or mentor to find out what happened to it.

Juanitou · Jan 28, 2015

Also, you can follow the progress of Newcons here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons

It seems there is no splash screen support for the moment being.

Bootsplash on VT ?

Ordoban

Juanitou

Juanitou