In general, the bootsplash works fine. One minor point, though.

After pressing enter at the initial boot: prompt, the following occurs:
-the screen is cleared.
-the penguin logo is displayed
-the line audit<numbers>initialised is displayed.
-there is an approx 6 second delay while the CD is accessed.
-the bootsplash begins.

Any way to eliminate the penguin (sorry tux!) and "audit" line?

splash is called in minirt/linuxrc as soon as proc and sysfs have been
mounted.

Apart from that, it's all going well.

Thanks for all help received.

Cheers,