diff --git a/system/kernel/kernel.zig b/system/kernel/kernel.zig
index f4bd9e8..297780a 100644
--- a/system/kernel/kernel.zig
+++ b/system/kernel/kernel.zig
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ fn kmain(boot_information: *const BootInformation) noreturn {
     }
 
     log.checkpoint(cp_running);
-    status("kernel initialised.\n");
+    status("/system/kernel: initialised.\n");
 
     // Publish the initial-ramdisk so user space can `system_spawn` its bundled
     // binaries by name. The kernel no longer launches them itself: init is the
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ fn kmain(boot_information: *const BootInformation) noreturn {
     // manager then discovers the hardware and spawns each driver. init runs on its own
     // address space, preemptively — this boot context becomes the BSP's idle loop.
     if (boot_information.init_len != 0) {
-        status("starting /system/services/init...\n");
+        status("/system/kernel: starting /system/services/init...\n");
         const image = @as([*]const u8, @ptrFromInt(boot_handoff.physicalToVirtual(boot_information.init_base)))[0..boot_information.init_len];
         process.spawnProcess(image, 4, &.{"/system/services/init"}) catch |err| {
             statusPrint("/system/services/init failed to load: {s}\n", .{@errorName(err)});