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10.4: Play with the fake startup progress bar
If, like me, you feel that the progress bar is fairly pointless after learning of this, you can get rid of it. Simply type
Now, because I have my comp. set to verbose boot I simply get my boot msgs and then a second or two of plain blue screen before the login window appears.
I have not seen any errors reported to the logs or other oddities because of this yet. But if your comp does become borked for some reason simply boot into single-user mode (Cmd + S) and type:
and then
Cheers,
~feyd
Hack the startup progress bar
This is a great opportunity for someone to write a little hack that replaces the fake bar with a dancing moof or a set of chompers biting an apple or something like that. Any programmers out there with time and ideas?
10.4: Play with the fake startup progress bar
Is there a way to always have your Mac boot in verbose mode? Or do you just use the key combo on every restart?
10.4: Play with the fake startup progress bar
sudo nvram boot-args="-v"
10.4: Play with the fake startup progress bar
This is great feyd! Disabling that and using verbose mode is the true geeky way to let OS X boot. I had to reboot just to see it, and it is slick. |
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