Thus spake Bill Studenmund ("BS> ") sometime Today...

BS> No, it won't. Maybe I cut too much context, but the scenario described was
BS> you have "com0" found but in a message-pending state (we haven't gotten to
BS> its place in the order yet, whatever that order is). You are now probing
BS> sd0, and _it_ has a hardware issue that causes the kernel to not boot.
BS>
BS> Since sd0 was the next thing to print, and that's where we had the kernel
BS> issue, I don't see how "com0" not being mentioned will matter. The problem
BS> is with sd0 and it should be obvious that it's with sd0. :-)

Why not just line-buffer the device messages and be done with it?

				--*greywolf;