This is probably the same thing that causes my XPDR or one of the servos to, very occasionally, pop up the Off-line message on system boot. Power-off reset usually clears it. IMO, it's a timing problem with all the devices booting up and the main system polling for status during its boot, with insufficient wait states to delay the polling long enough for everything to be up (as much as I *hate* wait states in a real-time system).
Told Dynon about it, along with my hypothesis, but I think it's just way down on the list of things to work on and not a safety of flight issue. I've never had anything drop out after successful boot.