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

[Tom R. no spam]

Hmmm, man nvram is interesting.  Looks like your suggestion is where the
rc file is getting args from for the case statement part I mentioned.
Good idea.

Do you know where to read the full verbose startup output after startup
is completed?  The dmesg content ends before the partition mount info.
Or know how to save the full verbose startup output for later viewing?

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dennis Fazio wrote:

> --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