The newest quarterly status report was just released yesterday, and contains info about ongoing work on the graphical bootloader, including screenshots, see:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader
We definitely need this. Some people just can't handle bootloadres/text boot loaders. One day I asked my girlfriend to grab some files off my desktop when she was home, and she called later to tell me she hadn't got them because every time she booted, she got a weird error message.
What she was seeing was GAG (
http://gag.sourceforge.net).
And she didn't even wait 10 seconds for it to auto-boot the OS before powering it down!