Boot Screen Text

anamelieanamelie
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in macOS edited January 2014
I found this command in a mac addict magazine that lets you see everything on your mac loading instead of just looking at a startup screen. Does anyone know if this still works in 10.2?

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  • Reply 1 of 11
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    if you tell me the key combo, i can try
  • Reply 2 of 11
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    apple-v



    That key combo switches the boot sequence to "verbose mode" which spews a bunch of unix text at you.



    You can set this in Open Firmware to automatically use verbose mode at every boot by using this command in the Terminal:



    [code]sudo nvram boot-args=-v</pre><hr></blockquote>



    Yes, it still works in 10.2. Also, apple-s still works for single-user mode.



    [ 08-19-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
  • Reply 3 of 11
    anamelieanamelie Posts: 36member
    Hey thanks for the info. I can't wait to get OSX.2
  • Reply 4 of 11
    rogue27rogue27 Posts: 607member
    That quote is on a sign at Presque Isle, a park here in town.



    Anyway, that verbose mode is kinda neat. I rebooted the computer a moment ago just to try it out!



    Actually, I was disappointed by how poorly the screen scrolled the text. It seemed like the video card really wasn't designed to work well in that mode. It would page down in chunks, and the screen redraw was pretty slow and ugly.



    It also didn't have the little [OK] and [FAILED] boxes like you see on linux. Well, it looked more like a FreeBSD startup screen... I wonder why that is?
  • Reply 5 of 11
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Gee, I can't imagine why...



    One thing bounced around the DarwinDev mailing list was having warning messages in yellow, error messages in red. Color is available for verbose mode text, but no one uses it, to my knowledge. I toyed with the idea of writing a driver for my Orb for a while, and one thing I had decided early on was that color would *really* help me find my messages in the boot sequence.
  • Reply 6 of 11
    fobiefobie Posts: 216member
    The console-mode works poorly in OSX, there seems to be no acceleration at all.



    Anyway, verbose boot rocks since you can spot all the errors and warnings (so you can fix it).



    I always do a verbose boot after a update from Apple since they tend to mess things up. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />



    [ 08-21-2002: Message edited by: Fobie ]</p>
  • Reply 7 of 11
    spotbugspotbug Posts: 361member
    [quote]Originally posted by rogue27:

    <strong>That quote is on a sign at Presque Isle, a park here in town.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Ah ha! The North... of Pennsylvania! Hmmm... unless "Presque Isle" isn't an uncommon name for a park.
  • Reply 8 of 11
    mrmistermrmister Posts: 1,095member
    Nope. Maine. Northern Maine, far northern Maine, in fact.
  • Reply 9 of 11
    senior burnsenior burn Posts: 35member
    There is also a presque isle here in Marquette MI. I'll have to ride my bike there after work and see if I can locate this sign.
  • Reply 10 of 11
    spotbugspotbug Posts: 361member
    Those French weren't very original when naming peninsulas, I guess. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 11 of 11
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    [quote]Originally posted by rogue27:

    <strong> Well, it looked more like a FreeBSD startup screen... I wonder why that is?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    apparently the jag core is based on BSD 4.4
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