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> OTOH, this version is much better than previous one... so at least we're
> heading in good direction :-))

I believe the goal behind the current message was to eliminate all
those novice users saying "how do I boot off the 1st drive on my 2nd
controller?" - the information presented there may be cryptic, but
it's also pretty useful if you're totally lost as to what your device
name should be or how you can specify the partition and bios logical
drive# independently.  "Hello, and welcome to FreeBSD!"  is certainly
more friendly, but does very little to actually aid the user. :-)

					Jordan