flynismo Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Hi everyone, Just installed Tiger 10.4 onto my external drive and everything seems to be great. My problem is that I am not very good with shell commands. Could someone please tell me the specific commands to enter in order to boot into Graphics Mode? When I boot the system, everything is text based. Thank you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110949-how-do-i-enter-into-gui/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
XweAponX Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 What do you mean, does the system stay IN text mode? Like: Does it say Boot: And nothing else? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110949-how-do-i-enter-into-gui/#findComment-786361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynismo Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 Hi, Well, I just completed the install, and then it asks if you want to add a new user or reboot the system. I added a user then rebooted. It rebooted in text mode, then it asked for login information. I logged in with the user I created and it accepts the username/password and remains in text mode. I believe this is where I enter the commands to enable the GUI, because I had to do the same with Linux (had someone familiar with Linux help me on that one). Basically, all I see right now is a black screen with white letters waiting for me to instruct it what to do; but as I said before, I don't know my way around a terminal yet... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110949-how-do-i-enter-into-gui/#findComment-786479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XweAponX Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 That is odd, well to get into the GUI the boot commands are Boot -v - Verbose Mode -x - Safe Mode -f - Old Safe Mode -F - Ignore Boot File -s - Single User Mode Graphics Mode - VESA Graphics Mode Dimensions Text Mode - VGA Text Mode Dimensions Boot Graphics - Graphics or Text Mode Quiet Boot - Quiet Bootmode MKext Cache - Mkext cache file Kernel Cache - Kernel Cache file rd - Root Device boot-uuid - Boot UUID platform - Platform Expert {ACPI} config - Load alternate config plist -maybe type BOOT GRAPHICS by pressing F8 at first boot, where iot says "boot:" That is supposed to toggle GUI on or off, at least I think that's what it means... I cant test it cos I took my OSx86 apart last night to build another one on more suitable hardware. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110949-how-do-i-enter-into-gui/#findComment-788735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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