...ok now I feel stupid. But I forgot a pretty important thing.

The splash screen is supported through the splash(4) driver. You will 
have to add this to your kernel first:

pseudo-device splash

Then we're back in business.

--
Thomas Hertz

Thomas Hertz wrote:

>Hello James,
>
>I'm not sure you have done this, but haven't you forgotten to add the
>path to the bitmap?
>These lines are necessary:
>|
>splash_bmp_load="YES"
>bitmap_load="YES"
>bitmap_name="/boot/splash.bmp"
>
>Also, the bitmap file (splash.bmp) cannot be larger than 320x200 pixels.
>It is possible to use a larger file by specifying vesa_load="YES" but it
>might not work on all graphics boards.
>
>cheers,
>
>--
>Thomas Hertz
>|
>cfs2 wrote:
>
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>
>>To whom it may concern,
>>I succeeded in having a Splash Screens when freebsd is started by modifying /boot/loader.conf and
loader.rc,to which added code 
>>splash_bmp_load="YES"
>>bitmap_load="YES" 
>>and 
>>include /boot/loader.4th
>>start  
>>respcetively but I failed in doing that when I tried on m0n0wall in the same way.
>>Please inform me of the way to modify m0n0wall in order to have a starting picture shown when it
is started.
>>
>>sincerely yours
>>James
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
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