docs/54009: Clarify the location of the splash image in the splash man page

[Michael Smith]

The following reply was made to PR docs/54009; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Smith <msmith at freebsd.org>
To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude at gmx.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, trhodes at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/54009: Clarify the location of the splash image in the splash man page
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 09:19:00 -0700

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