How can I stop scrolling text on boot up ?

[EddieR]

Anyone help me, I get the scrolling text on boot up of the XxX 10.4.11 install, anyone know how I can stop it??

[hecker]

Yes. You need to edit your boot.plist file, which is located in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

Enter the following in the terminal:

sudo -s
nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

You will then see something similar to this:

 

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>10</string>
<key>Quiet Boot</key>
<string>No</string>
</dict>
</plist>

You need to have the

<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>

section, set to "Yes" in order to show the nice little apple at boot. If you don't have the Boot Graphics key in the file, then simply add it manually.

 

Source: Neonkoala's Site

 

Cheers,

 

- hecker

[EddieR]

hecker,

Thanks for the reply, my problem was in the file you indicated, but, I had to remove a "v" that kept the OS booting in Verbose, I followed these instructions from Sticman, which are similar to yours except the reference of "v" as opposed to "Yes" under the Boot Graphics... Thanks again...

 

open terminal

edit the plist file:

sudo nano

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

enter your root password: xxxxxxxx

Find the "-v" with your arrow keys, the mouse wont work!

remove the flag "-v" so that this is left <string></string>

CNTRL+o to save, if it ask you what to save, just press ENTER,

then CNTRL+x to exit,

Reboot

SticMAN

[hecker]

hecker,

Thanks for the reply, my problem was in the file you indicated, but, I had to remove a "v" that kept the OS booting in Verbose, I followed these instructions from Sticman, which are similar to yours except the reference of "v" as opposed to "Yes" under the Boot Graphics... Thanks again...

 

open terminal

edit the plist file:

sudo nano

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

enter your root password: xxxxxxxx

Find the "-v" with your arrow keys, the mouse wont work!

remove the flag "-v" so that this is left <string></string>

CNTRL+o to save, if it ask you what to save, just press ENTER,

then CNTRL+x to exit,

Reboot

SticMAN

Yes, I forgot about the verbose flag, "-v". This flag is a paramter for the the "Kernel Flags" key and not the "Boot Graphics" key, though.

 

Cheers,

 

-hecker