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?
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?
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.
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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>
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?
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.
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>
<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.
<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