No Apple screen when booting up, just loading messages

[Amon Duul]

I've just installed 10.4.5 on an old 1.8ghz Celeron with 256mb RAM. For some reason XP started running incredibly slow on the system, this is why I installed OS X. To my surprise it runs great, better than XP ever did, sound works which is awesome. Not sure if the graphics do, but I'm using a 1024 x 768 monitor anyway. Absolutely love it!

 

The only problem is, when I turn on my machine I get the black 'Darwin x86' screen firstly, which asks about startup settings and counts down. But then when I press enter to start up I get Matrix like text flashing really fast down the screen for a few seconds, then another black screen telling me whats loading and whats not kind of thing. Then after a while the desktop loads and everything's fine.

 

I would rather have the apple logo screen though when I switch my computer on.

How do I go about doing that?

[scj312]

open com.apple.Boot.plist and remove the -v parameter.

[Amon Duul]

And how do I go about doing that?

[Ianxxx]

And how do I go about doing that?

 

Open finder go Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration

 

copy com.apple.Boot.plist to your desktop

 

open it with text editor

 

remove "-v"

 

save

 

replace the one in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration with the one on your desktop

 

open terminal and type

 

cd /Volumes/"your hard disk"/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration

 

sudo chown -R 0:0 com.apple.Boot.plist

sudo chmod -R 755 com.apple.Boot.plist

[Deviant0ne]

^ Couldn't have said it better myself.