Defaulting to verbose booting via nvram

Hack:		Bypassing the Mac OS X GUI
Subject:		Defaulting to verbose booting via nvram
Date:		2005-09-19 01:30:15
From:		chinarut

"Verbose booting shows you the actual process of Mac OS X's startup. You'll see drivers get loaded and services launch. This command should work on any recent (New World) Macintosh: sudo /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args="-v" " For some reason I still had to use Command-V to get my login prompt. If you don't Mac OS X (10.3.9) will show you the usual GUI status and apparently "hang" on 'Starting loging window' when it's really waiting for you to log in via console at the prompt behind the scenes! fair warning to those who try this hack - I didn't know what to do other than shutdown via power switch.. grin