On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:18:05AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:58:03PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > perhaps my googling skills are bad, but i couldn't find a way > > to present a bootsplash under netbsd. > > > > does it exist? > > if it does, where may i find more information about it's usage? > > It is under the GENERIC kernel configuration of NetBSD-6.1.4: > > # enable splash screen support; requires genfb or radeonfb > #options SPLASHSCREEN > > It looks like, at minimum, you have to build your own kernel with that > option enabled. I've never tried it, so I don't know what other > requirements there might be to make it work. > > I did find a blog posting that might be useful though: > > http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/index.front?-tags=vesa
many thanks roy, the pointers are quite useful. ~mayuresh
