Bug 253392

Summary:	Handbook update: '… Configuring Boot Time Splash Screens'
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Graham Perrin <grahamperrin>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	pauamma
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
URL:	https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/boot/#boot-splash
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	263315

Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2021-02-10 03:22:01 UTC

Please prepare for the Handbook to document: 

boot_mute="NO" 

– and other options that may be relevant to the anticipated March RELEASE of 13.0. 

Maybe with reference to work in progress <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/#boot-loader> for boot loader changes. 

Related
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⚙ D27420 loader: implement framebuffer console
<https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27420>

<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/lea3e4/-/gmrrtup/?context=1>

boot loader blank screen
<https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2021-January/078144.html>
<https://markmail.org/message/4qah3tyubkmbszox>

– whilst much of what followed was off-topic (about git), points such as <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2021-January/078204.html> caught my eye with: 

> hw.vga.textmode="0"

Whether such things will belong anywhere in the Handbook, I don't know (sorry). 

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Side note: I don't know when boot_mute became an option, but it was mentioned in a December 2016 topic that's no longer available online: 

> [TrueOS Community] [Help and Support] HOWTO deactivate boot splash logo