Is it possible to see what my Pbook is doing during a boot/shutdown?

[BiikeMike]

On a few linux boxes I have built, the distro's show exactly what is happening during a boot or shutdown. What scripts are running, etc. My Pbook takes an excessively long time to boot and shutdown, and I was just wondering if there was a way to view this information instead of the little twirly clock and the progress bar. Thanks

 

[Nermal]

Hold Cmd-V at the boot chime. You can make it permanent by typing sudo nvram boot-args="-v" at a terminal.

 

[mulletman13]

Just curious, how does one reverse

sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

...whoopsies ...

 

[AppleAce]

Just curious, how does one reverse

sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

...whoopsies ...

With the command

sudo nvram boot-args=""

But why would you want to reverse it
I mean the console *is* ugly and all, but it is a helluva lot more informative as to what is actually going on than the spinning line circle thing.

 

[BiikeMike]

cool, thanks

 

[BiikeMike]

Thats cute:

P-P-P-POWERBOOK:~ mikehamberger$ sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
P-P-P-POWERBOOK:~ mikehamberger$

 

[BiikeMike]

Wow, that cut my boot time in half............

 

[Chef Medeski]

Wierd... it won't let me type in my password into terminal.

 

[BiikeMike]

Wierd... it won't let me type in my password into terminal.

It doesnt show up when you are typing, but it knows you are typing it. Once you have finished typing your password press return, and eveything should work out fine


(Its a *nix security thing, instead of showing up as ***, it just doenst show up at all)

 

[Chef Medeski]

It doesnt show up when you are typing, but it knows you are typing it. Once you have finished typing your password press return, and eveything should work out fine


(Its a *nix security thing, instead of showing up as ***, it just doenst show up at all)

Interesting... good to know.