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Hack:   Bypassing the Mac OS X GUI
Subject:   So what happens if you get stuck with verbose startup?
Date:   2005-03-20 14:07:50
From:   moodymann
Hi
I just performed a clean installation of 10.3.8 and a couple of days later the installation has mysteriously got stuck in Verbose mode. No user is recognised at the end of the verbose list when asked to login. Very wierd. So what do i do????
Cheers
MM
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  • So what happens if you get stuck with verbose startup?
    2005-09-19 04:28:40  Jeppie [Reply | View]

    Well, I´ve been stupid to try this hack too. But now i´m stuck. Can someone help this noob? When i login using my username or using root he says "login incorrect" while i entered it right. How can I get into my mac? Or how do I set the settings back? Plz help me, I´m lost.
  • So what happens if you get stuck with verbose startup?
    2005-09-19 01:14:01  chinarut [Reply | View]

    hey - I got this too - I tried my own user, i enabled root and tried this a million times.

    then i wondered how do you do a soft-reboot from console?

    is there a key sequence so I can avoid shutting my machine down via power switch?
    • So what happens if you get stuck with verbose startup?
      2007-09-16 05:22:22  ShaunRM [Reply | View]

      From the Terminal prompt type sudo /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args=""
    • So what happens if you get stuck with verbose startup?
      2007-04-10 11:51:16  I_am_Yar [Reply | View]

      After you login, type shutdown -h -r -n 00:30(set time 1 minute ahead of current time). The -r is for restart. Leave it out if you just want to shutdown. I figured this out on my own and could only get the shutdown process to actually work by adding the -n switch which is for setting a time for the shutdown. I usually just set it for 1 minute ahead of the current time. The time is in military time.
      • So what happens if you get stuck with verbose startup?
        2007-04-10 20:52:03  I_am_Yar [Reply | View]

        Just adding a correction. To restart from the command line prompt type the shutdown command with the -r (restart) switch and -n (time to restart). To shutdown the Mac from the command line type the shutdown command then -h switch and the -n (time to restart)switch.

        Example:

        shutdown -r -n 21:36
        • So what happens if you get stuck with verbose startup?
          2008-01-11 14:03:03  coreyva [Reply | View]

          To have the system shutdown/reboot immediately, just append now to the command.

          shutdown -r now
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