[Ti] verbose startup, was Re: [Ti] Fwd: [Ti] Al-book start-up speed (v Windows XP)

[Dennis Fazio]

--On Friday, January 9, 2004 12:04 AM -0500 "Tom R. no spam" <tr5374 at csc.albany.edu> wrote:

> Hmmmm, reading /etc/rc, and seeing the line
>     VerboseFlag=""
> and then the case statement lines near-below including
>     VerboseFlag="-v"
> has me wondering:  If the 1st entry were
>     VerboseFlag="-v"
> would that force a verbose startup?


Don't go messing with that. Instead, start a terminal session and enter:

    sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

(Enter your admin password when prompted.)

It sets a parameter in the nonvolatile RAM. That'll do it for you.

I think   sudo nvram boot-args=    will turn it back off

-- 
Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com