PowerBook G4 Booting Through Darwin Kernel

[Sawtooth811]

Hello. I have a 15-inch PowerBook G4 1.67GHz I recently fixed up and restored for my cousin to buy from me. It is the second to last model before Apple went on to the Intel MBP models.

Whenever it boots in OS X on the hard drive or an OS X reinstallation disc, the usual gray Apple logo shows up for maybe 1 to 2 seconds, then the black Darwin Kernel screen appears and shows a list of what is going on while it's booting up. THen, after maybe 30 seconds, it returns to normal; meaning it goes straight to the blue screen and then the login window appears like it should.

Darwin looks fascinating and quite familiar to a Mac geek like myself, but frightening as all hell to the inexperienced, and I witnessed their fear.

How do I hide Darwin?

 

[ezramoore]

Go to Terminal, type this in

nvram -p

Report back what you get.

 

[Sawtooth811]

Go to Terminal, type this in

nvram -p

Report back what you get.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it didn't work, but in Terminal, a bunch of text (probably a report of what Darwin showed during the boot) appeared in terminal after hitting enter.

Any other ways? Thanks again for the reply!

 

[ezramoore]

I should have been clearer: paste here what you get in terminal after running that command.

Or try,

sudo nvram boot-args=

If you just want to clear boot arguments and see if that fixes it.

 

[Sawtooth811]

It worked! Thanks a lot for your help!

 

[ezramoore]

No problem, glad you got it sorted out!