My Mac Bootup

scott.sscott.s
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
My Bootup automatically boots up in Verbose Mode and I honestly would rather see the Litte apple with the "circle of circles". Anyone know what could be going on? I even unplugged the keyboard and reboot the system just to make sure that nothing was pressing Command-V.



Here's a video of what's happening:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hELad0sARfU



Sorry for the poor quality but it was taken with my phone.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    fatcatdjfatcatdj Posts: 90member
    been there and seen that. somewhere down the line you may deleted a file or project that had something to do or linked with startup. re-install OS
  • Reply 2 of 5
    smaxsmax Posts: 361member
    Don't reinstall OSX... Reset your PRAM.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    scott.sscott.s Posts: 12member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by fatcatdj View Post


    been there and seen that. somewhere down the line you may deleted a file or project that had something to do or linked with startup. re-install OS



    I asked the apple discussion forums yesterday as well to be on the safe side and they fixed it for me. Thank you for the suggestion but that would have been a real headache, quite frankly I'm glad I read their suggestion first, no offense.



    All I had to do was hold down command-option-p-r during bootup until I heard the chime play twice and it worked. Supposedly that resets the pram or something. They sent me to these Apple webpages:



    What's stored in PRAM

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86194

    Resetting your PRAM

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238



    Just for reference in case someone else experiences this problem.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    smaxsmax Posts: 361member
    Heh, apparently I was too late. Oh well.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,326moderator
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scott.S


    All I had to do was hold down command-option-p-r during bootup until I heard the chime play twice and it worked. Supposedly that resets the pram or something.



    It resets the NVRam too, which is where the setting is for booting into verbose mode.



    If you had typed



    nvram boot-args



    in the terminal, it would probably have been set to something like "-v".



    Typ man nvram for more info.



    To reset it, all you need to do is open the terminal and type:



    nvram boot-args=""

    or

    nvram -d boot-args



    This has the advantage of not resetting all your PRAM variables.
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