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

From: Pierre Pronchery <khorben@defora.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/33579: kernel boot query does not turn off the splash screen
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:29:23 +0100

 The same issue applies for any interactive boot process. This can be
 very annoying for things like:
 - cgd passphrases
 - SSL servers passphrases
 - file system checks
 
 HTH,
 -- 
 khorben