which stage of the boot process would this message be seen?

During which stage of the boot process would this message be seen?
Ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA

A.
Boot loader start and hand off to kernel

B.
Kernel loading

C.
Hardware initialization and setup

D.
Daemon initialization and setup

Explanation:
See http://www.snow.nl/dist/xhtmlc/ch14s02.html