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From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org>
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> I keep picturing making a new kernel and it not booting, and you're looking
> at a big FreeBSD Daemon instead of a message telling something userful.
> Maybe the daemon could frown, like the Mac? That would help?

Or you hit ESC and get the probe messages you want.