wheres my startup screen?/

[dponmac]

I finally got 10.4.5 installed and now when it boots, it will boot up in verbose mode, and i also dont get a "starting Mac OS X" screen.. I think i saw a thred floating around here somewhere about this, but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone know how to fix this?

[Veeoh]

Hi,

 

You need to edit your com.apple.Boot.plist and remove the -v option.

 

It's located:-

 

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

 

hope this helps.

 

Mark

[dponmac]

yeah i saw that in there, I was wondering about that.. thanks

[miliuco]

You must activate the superuser (root). Afterwards, open terminal and type in:

su root

Password:

cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

pico com.apple.Boot.plist

You can edit the file, press F3 to save the changes and F2 to quit pico.

 

Some ideas about com.apple.Boot.plist:

- this file has, in XML format, some boot configurations

- time to stop at the prompt (in sec.):

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>8</string>

- to go directly to the graphic mode:

<key>Quiet Boot</key>

<string>Yes</string>

- if a Timeout key exists, the prompt waits for that seconds in spite of the QuietBoot key

- delete this 2 lines or leave blank the <string></string> content to avoid the verbose mode messages

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>-v</string>