Always boot Mac OS X in Verbose Mode
Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks - March 25th, 2007 - 14 Comments
Booting Mac OS X is attractive and all, but some users would prefer to see what’s going on behind the scenes. Verbose mode shows you what is really happening during system startup, and is great for troubleshooting. Typically if you wanted to boot in verbose mode you would hit Command-V during startup, which brings up the familiar white on black console. If you’d prefer to always see the system messages on boot, you can adjust the firmware from the Terminal with the nvram command.
To turn on Verbose booting, at the Terminal type the following:
sudo nvram boot-args="-v"
Disabling Verbose booting is just as easy:
sudo nvram boot-args=
If you’re curious what the current firmware nvram settings are, type the following:
nvram -p
Again, if you just want to boot into verbose mode once, hold the following keys on system boot:
Command+V
I would rather just hit command-v when necessary, I prefer the bells & whistles of a nice spunky graphic splash to some scrolling greek text
For those who want to exercise geekdom without satiating their true inner geek, you can do this and a lot of other stuff using a gui util like OnyX. But this is, of course, “funner.”
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Do you know how to disable the verbose mode definetely? I have activated it on a mb late 2008, and now I cannot disable it anymore… how can I do that?
thanks
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gp
hi. i have a macbook laptop 2006 13-inch screen……. and i lost my login password plus i lost my startup disc to…. it is anyone there can probably know what to do please help me i do not what to do thank you very much
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could i use this command to reset the PRAM from first boot, as i understand it, setting something like
sudo nvram boot-args=”-p -r”
should reset the PRAM, and then would allow the system to boot normally( as the command would wipe its self out)
why i ask?
any help please!
my mini no longer lets me reset PRAM from either a wired, or a wireless keyboard.(target disk mode works, option boot wont)
but all keys work fine once the OS is booted.
-w
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Just what I needed. Thanks!
ok i type -v NOT -V does that matter?
after some scrolling text the screen goes black but my PC is still running cause it has the light on and i can here it like usually. whats going on here?