The following reply was made to PR kern/33579; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/33579: kernel boot query does not turn off the splash screen
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 19:34:47 -0300

 ci4ic4@gmail.com wrote:
 > The required parameters - root device, swap, filesystem type and path to init - are not passed to the kernel and a queried during boot. If one has the VGA splash screen enabled, it does not get cleared when the query is being made and one has to blindly type the four responses.
 >   
 Is this PR talking about the grub splash screen, or the NetBSD 
 vesafb/SPLASHSCREEN code?
 
 Cheers,
 Jared