Can one boot an Intel Mac into verbose and safe-mode boot-up at the same time? Would holding ⌘⇧V accomplish that?
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Verbose and safe-mode boot-up at the same time?
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To boot your Mac into verbose mode, you need to hold down the Command and V keys during startup. To boot your Mac into safe mode, you need to hold down the Shift key during startup.
If you hold down both the Command, Shift, and V keys at the same time, your Mac will enter verbose mode but not safe mode. It is not possible to enter both modes simultaneously.
https://setapp.com/how-to/mac-verbose-mode
Scroll down until you get to "How to set an automatic booting Mac in verbose mode". You can use Terminal to make your Mac always boot into Verbose mode then, in theory, booting into Safe mode should work on top of that.
Not to highjack this thread but is there any way to pause verbose mode (or slow it down)? That stuff scrolls by way too fast to read normally.
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Yes. Enter
sudo nvram boot-args="-v -x" in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, enter your password and reboot. This will permanently enable both safe and verbose boot. To undo, enter sudo nvram boot-args="" in Terminal.