Boot Text

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nathbeadle

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I just purchased a new Intel Dual Core Mac Mini. I'd like to find out how to turn off all the boot text that appears. I prefer the grey screen and the apple logo when booting like my other PPC macs do. Plus when showing the Mac off, I've seen a few faces cringe when they see all that text at the start!

Does anyone know how, or if this is even possible? Thanks a lot!
 
Yes, I wonder what's wrong with your system!
A normal boot should show a grey apple, then a blue screen with very little text (I think only 'OS X starting up') and then a login screen if you have chosen that, or simply goes straight to the Finder - as most Macs should do.

Sounds like yours is locked into 'verbose mode', maybe the result of a flaky keyboard that you have added.
 
Try opening a Terminal (in the /Applications/Utilities) and in there issue the command:

Code: 
nvram boot-args
See if the output shows a "-v". If so, verbose booting is set to "on" in the open firmware and all you have to do to turn it off is remove the "-v" from the boot flags, e.g.:

Code: 
sudo nvram boot-args=""
You'll be prompted for your password.

NOTE: if there are other flags in your boot-args you will need to keep those. So for example if the first "nvram boot-args" command above returns a string something longer than just "-v" such as:

-v debug=0x41 cpus=1

then you'd need to preserve everything except the -v, e.g.:

Code: 
sudo nvram boot-args="debug=0x41 cpus=1"
(The specific string would probably be different for you, but you get the idea).
 
Thanks alot Macbri!!

Popped up the Terminal and there it was... "-v". Removed it and the world was well. Great little tidbit to know!! I knew it was something around there, just didn't want to start tinkering around with config files.

Thanks again!!
 
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