diff --git a/internal/init/run.go b/internal/init/run.go
index 99a35c5..006d465 100644
--- a/internal/init/run.go
+++ b/internal/init/run.go
@@ -1016,7 +1016,21 @@ func boot(ctx context.Context, shutdown *shutdownRequests) (err error) {
 	// polls the local socket and redraws the node status frame. A console crash
 	// is non-critical: superviseConsole restarts it and never returns an error
 	// that would reboot a serving CA.
-	go superviseConsole(ctx)
+	//
+	// It runs under its own cancelable context rather than ctx directly, so a
+	// shutdown can stop it for good -- and confirm it has actually exited --
+	// before the shutdown message is written to the same console (#370).
+	consoleCtx, cancelConsole := context.WithCancel(ctx)
+	defer cancelConsole()
+	consoleDone := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		defer close(consoleDone)
+		superviseConsole(consoleCtx)
+	}()
+	shutdown.stopConsole = func() {
+		cancelConsole()
+		<-consoleDone
+	}
 
 	// 14. Park until a shutdown is requested, then return so the deferred
 	// teardown runs before PID 1 reboots or powers off. SIGINT must be handled
diff --git a/internal/init/shutdown.go b/internal/init/shutdown.go
index 255690d..9fad199 100644
--- a/internal/init/shutdown.go
+++ b/internal/init/shutdown.go
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ type shutdownRequests struct {
 	// is happening instead of freezing on its last frame.
 	announce func(ShutdownAction)
 
+	// stopConsole stops the console dashboard for good and blocks until it has
+	// actually exited. Wait calls it before announce, so the dashboard's own
+	// refresh loop can never redraw a frame over the shutdown message (#370).
+	stopConsole func()
+
 	mu     sync.Mutex
 	chosen ShutdownAction
 }
@@ -145,6 +150,11 @@ func (r *shutdownRequests) Request(a ShutdownAction) {
 // for Action, and arms the teardown watchdog before returning, so the
 // teardown that follows cannot hang the node. An ended context counts as a
 // reboot.
+//
+// The console is stopped, and waited for, before the shutdown message is
+// announced: announcing first and stopping the console after would leave a
+// window where the dashboard's own refresh loop redraws its ordinary status
+// frame over the message that was just written (#370).
 func (r *shutdownRequests) Wait(ctx context.Context) ShutdownAction {
 	a := ShutdownReboot
 	select {
@@ -154,6 +164,9 @@ func (r *shutdownRequests) Wait(ctx context.Context) ShutdownAction {
 	r.mu.Lock()
 	r.chosen = a
 	r.mu.Unlock()
+	if r.stopConsole != nil {
+		r.stopConsole()
+	}
 	if r.announce != nil {
 		r.announce(a)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/init/shutdown_test.go b/internal/init/shutdown_test.go
index efc6b0d..b70f535 100644
--- a/internal/init/shutdown_test.go
+++ b/internal/init/shutdown_test.go
@@ -108,6 +108,32 @@ func TestShutdownRequests_WaitAnnouncesTheAction(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Wait stops the console dashboard for good, and waits for it to have
+// actually stopped, before announcing the shutdown message. Otherwise the
+// dashboard's own refresh loop can redraw its ordinary status frame over the
+// shutdown message after it is written (#370).
+func TestShutdownRequests_WaitStopsTheConsoleBeforeAnnouncing(t *testing.T) {
+	sd := testShutdownRequests(nil)
+	var order []string
+	sd.stopConsole = func() { order = append(order, "stop") }
+	sd.announce = func(ShutdownAction) { order = append(order, "announce") }
+	sd.Request(ShutdownReboot)
+
+	sd.Wait(context.Background())
+	if !slices.Equal(order, []string{"stop", "announce"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("order = %v, want [stop announce]", order)
+	}
+}
+
+// A nil stopConsole (the zero value, before run.go wires one up) must not
+// panic Wait.
+func TestShutdownRequests_WaitToleratesNoStopConsole(t *testing.T) {
+	sd := testShutdownRequests(nil)
+	sd.Request(ShutdownReboot)
+
+	sd.Wait(context.Background())
+}
+
 // The console message names the action in the same words an admin sees
 // elsewhere in the UI, not the log's terse "reboot"/"power-off".
 func TestShutdownAction_ConsoleMessage(t *testing.T) {