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> 
> What would be nice would be to have the normal version displayed and
> the verbose stuff go to a seperate buffer and logged seperatly..
> 
> ie so you don't clutter your boot screen with junk, but if you have a
> problem you can get at the verbose info :)
> 
> .. and no I don't have any patches :)

From tne cmn_err(9f) man page for solaris:

     The first character in format affects where the message will
     be written:

     !    the message goes only to the system buffer.

     ^    the message goes only to the console.

     ?    If level is also CE_CONT, the message is always sent to
          the  system  buffer, but is only written to the console
          when the system has been booted in verbose  mode.   See
          kernel(1M).   If  neither  condition  is  met,  the '?'
          character has no effect and is simply ignored.





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