Dell 640m / 10.4.9 - Bootscreen gone

[TB2]

I did a quick search on this topic, but I didn't find anything. After upgrading from 10.4.8 - worked like a charm, thanks to Ahmad Moawya - the grey screen with the Apple logo doesn't show up anymore when starting OS X. Instead I see all that written stuff documenting the booting process. Same thing when shutting down. This is indeed a minor problem, but I would like to fix it, so it looks like a normal OS X again...

 

I used the JaS Iso of 10.4.8 and upgraded to 10.4.9. Besides of that I didn't fiddle a lot within the system. Just activating the Sigmatel 9200 sound and the broadcom 440 Ethernet. It's a dual boot with XP.

 

Any Idea?

[Spaces]

Try add this to your boot.plist

 

"<key>Boot Graphics</key>"

"<string>Yes</string>"

 

you have to goto applications - utilities - terminal.

 

then type 'sudo nano /library/preferences/systemconfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist'

 

hope it works

[TB2]

That's already in there. The whole file looks like 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>Timeout</key>
<string>10</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v</string>
<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>

[my2sense]

Remove the -v in <string>-v</string>. The -v is for verbose logging.

[TB2]

Great! That worked.

 

Thanks!