Show daemon loading during boot sequence

I am working on a daemon and in it I have the following:
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
stat_busy
stat_fail
add_daemon
stat_done
rm_daemon
When I run it from a terminal it all looks correct and when I add it to my daemons array it does its job. I would like for it to be visible while I am booting the machine though. What am I missing? The daemon is in the /etc/rc.d and it is of course executable.

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WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/oldusbload, it will be ignored in a future release.
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:: Parsing hook [scsi]
:: Parsing hook [sata]
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
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:: Parsing hook [udev]
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:: Parsing hook [scsi]
:: Parsing hook [sata]
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
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:: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-fallback.img'
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ot fix the error]
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Do your physical cores seem like they are working properly? I really don't understand much about how it works, but this is the first that I've heard of an odd number of cores on a multi-core system being reported.

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