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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Subject: Re: The logo at boot (Nakatomi Socrates BSD 9.2)
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk> writes:
>
>> Do you know what is this logo means, or the story behind it?
>> I thought the BSD daemon (logo) has been around for many years in the past.
>
> It's a movie reference ("Die Hard").
>
> The Beastie logo is still there, in the /boot directory, if you want it.

Or the standard "orb", by setting it in /boot/loader.conf: 
loader_logo="orb"