Heya, I have the same problem, and I have tried to search around the internet and found some manuals for installing bootsplash(and framebuffer), and it said that you have to install a patch named patch-2.4.26-lck1, then you install the bootsplash patch.. I tried it,and it didn't work, but if you figure out something that makes it work please reply on this topic then
Thanks
The internet connection on the patch-2.4.26-lck1 patch were so slow, so I put it on my web-server:
http://errorx.homelinux.net/patch-2.4.26-lck1