there is a errormessage in the begining when the system starts to boot, but after a while it still loads the bootsplash image and progressbar and all.. Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Can't open config file /etc/splash/emergence/1400x1050.cfg. Failed to load image (null). Failed to get silent splash image. >> Loading modules >> Activating udev >> Determining root device... >> Mounting root... >> Booting (initramfs)...... INIT: version 2.86 booting emerge --info here::: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa amd applet arts asf audiofile automount avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cardbus chroot crypt crypto_libgcrypt crypto_openssl cups curl curlwrappers dri dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fat fbcon fbsplash firefox font-server fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp fuse gatos gdbm gif glitz glut glx gmp gnome gnome-print gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gvim gzip ibam idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipod ipv6 java john jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lame lcms libg++ libwww logrotate mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer ncurses nls ntfs ogg oggvorbis opengl openssh openssl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba screen sdl spell splashutils sse sse2 ssl symlink tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb userlocales video_cards_ati vim vim-with-x vnc vorbis wifi wma x11vnc xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
There was a bug in fbsplash. You need to upgrade to gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r2 or newer.
Is this still an issue?