diff --git a/scripts/start-server.ps1 b/scripts/start-server.ps1
index 3014089..904ebc9 100644
--- a/scripts/start-server.ps1
+++ b/scripts/start-server.ps1
@@ -228,7 +228,16 @@ try {
             $previousErrorActionPreference = $ErrorActionPreference
             try {
                 $ErrorActionPreference = "Continue"
+                # Stringify before Tee-Object. With a bare `2>&1 |`, PowerShell wraps
+                # every line the child writes to stderr in an ErrorRecord, which prints
+                # as a red NativeCommandError block and reads as a failed migration --
+                # even for ordinary informational output such as go-admin's
+                # "config init". Chasing individual stderr writers is whack-a-mole; this
+                # fixes the whole class. $LASTEXITCODE still reports the child's real
+                # exit code through the added pipeline stage, so failure detection below
+                # is unaffected.
                 & go run . migrate -c config/settings.yml 2>&1 |
+                    ForEach-Object { "$_" } |
                     Tee-Object -FilePath $migrationLog
                 $migrationExitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
             }