Removing OS X Verbose Startup
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 08:18 With some newer Macs you can experience the verbose boot/startup -- basically you can see lots of white letters on the black screen. This type of thing used to happen when users would clone the startup disk or when unfortunately something was wrong with the machine. However, here we are talking about brand new Macs, tho many times this will happen if you put additional or different RAM chips as soon as you got your Mac or changed a hardware component. While to some users this verbose boot can look cool, many want simply to see the standard boot (with Apple logo). Advanced users who wants to see what's going on behind the pretty logo can always access the verbose mode by simultaneously pressing command+V keys before the logo shows up.
For others who would rather not see the verbose mode and have a brand new Mac:
- go to the SYSTEM PREFERENCES -> SYSTEM -> STARTUP DISK
- click on the Macintosh HD and restart the computer -- you may need to restart twice before the verbose mode disappears; if the verbose mode is still there, continue to the step 3
- on your hard disk go to APPLICATIONS -> UTILITIES -> and open up TERMINAL.APP
- in the Terminal.app type the following:
sudo nvram boot-args= - press the enter/return key (you may also need the system/admin password at this point and if you need to enter the password, then retype the command from the step 4 and ENTER just to make sure that the system takes it
- restrat your Mac and your Mac will display the standard Apple logo boot
Note: the reverse process for advanced users who'd like to see the verbose mode every time without the need to hold command+V is to type/enter in the Terminal.app:
sudo nvram boot-args="-v"








