So you think ya know what Tiger does at boot, eh?

Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
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/usr/libexec/WaitingForLoginWindow



Run this via ARD or SSH to your Mac desktops and freak out the users!





http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/...forloginwindow





While booting, Tiger no longer displays a series of vaguely-informative status messages describing which subsystems are launching. All you see during the Tiger boot sequence: the gray Apple logo screen, then the spinner under the Apple logo, then a progress bar with the text, ?Starting Mac OS X?. Next up is the Login panel.



You will need to run the killall command to end the "booting"

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    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    well, all I know is that startup seemingly takes half the time of Panther...



    Pretty amazing.



    But I can't really understand if it gets to the desktop quicker and then waits for the other processes to start (like Windows) or if it actually has been doubled.
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