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>Don't screw with the module path.  Either fix the documentation to
>reflect
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>reality, or change the code to search for the splash elsewhere.
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> = Mike
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>On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 9:16 AM, Siegbert Baude wrote:
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><excerpt>Tom, but you have an absolute path to the image in your
>loader.conf, right?
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>I checked the docu now once again, and every piece of it including the
>splash 
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>mini-FAQ says, the splash image should go into /boot. I found the
>solution in 
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>/boot/defaults/loader.conf, where it is said that the image must be
>located 
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>somewhere in the module_path. The default for this however is 
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>"/boot/kernel;/boot/modules/" so a splash image in /boot isn't found.
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>I think there are two solutions:
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>1) Add /boot to the module_path in /boot/defaults/loader.conf like
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>"/boot/kernel;/boot/modules/;/boot"
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>2) Remove all examples of images in the documentation, which use
>relative 
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>paths and substitute the absolute paths.
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>Mike, do you think there might be some problems with solution #1? It
>would be 
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>easier to correct, but maybe #2 is the cleaner way. I would create the
>diffs 
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>for the man pages and conf-files, so you only had to commit them.
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>Ciao
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>Siegbert
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></excerpt><italic><fontfamily><param>Arial Narrow</param>--
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>Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?</fontfamily></italic>

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