Windows Linux Mac Tips » text http://wlmtips.com A tip a day... Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:23:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 How to See Boot Up Text (Mac Monday) http://wlmtips.com/2008/06/16/how-to-see-boot-up-text-mac-monday/ http://wlmtips.com/2008/06/16/how-to-see-boot-up-text-mac-monday/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:30:32 +0000 Michael http://wlmtips.com/?p=209 If you have ever used a Linux system you probably have seen the boot up text (aka verbose mode). The boot up text can be quite informative if you’re having hardware or system problems when you boot up. Or the boot up text can look kinda cool and make you feel like you’re in one of those old school green screen computer movies.

Whichever reason you choose, you can see the boot up text on your nice shiny Mac. The text has been running behind that splash screen of yours all along.

Why even bother with a splash screen? So that all those people who have no idea how to use a computer will not run away before they ever get to a login screen (and because it looks nicer). So here’s how to see the boot up text:

While your Mac is booting up, press: Command + V.

That’s it! It will only show you the boot text on that boot up; so if you like that splash screen of yours, don’t worry, it will come back the next time you start your computer.

TIP: If you want to keep the boot up text, run the following command in the terminal:

sudo nvram boot-args=”-v”

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