> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > Question: as much as i'd love to have bootverbose available on install
> > > disks (and only there): which size impact does that have? We're already
> > > pretty low on space...
> > 
> > Probably no more than is already there with current DEBUG kernels.
> > Why only on the install disks?
> 
> Because I(!)'ve needed it only on the install disks, which I use to play
> with new machines. On machines that run NetBSD, I don't need to debug
> the kernel. Usually. 

Fair enough. However, over the last 23 years my first response to reported
problems are "can you build a debug kernel and reproduce the problem and send
me the output..." :-)