Does the macbook (or any mac) do this at startup?

[confucious626]

I just got the 1099 macbook. Since the time I turned it on it started showing all these numbers, letters, etc, everytime I start it up. Is this normal? Thanks.

 

[DaftUnion]

No, Macs aren't supposed to do this.

 

[faintember]

Thats verbose boot-up mode. It just shows what all is going on behind the scenes. It typically only happens when you hold command+v immediately after pressing the power button.

I have no clue why it is doing it all of the time. I believe there is a terminal command to switch it back to the "normal" boot-up method, but i can recall it at this time.

 

[h0e0h]

they're only kidding with this behind the scenes, and technical terminal stuff... your new macbook is set in destructo mode from the factory...

 

[plinden]

In Terminal:

sudo nvram boot-args=""

But I hope you realise that doing something involving boot arguments, told to you by a stranger in a public forum, isn't the cleverest thing to do. Google "nvram boot-args" first.

Actually, try to see what the boot-args are:

sudo nvram boot-args

If it's set to verbose mode, you'll see "boot-args -v" on the screen. If it's not set to verbose mode, you'll either get an Error (-1) or simply "boot-args" on its own and you have some other problem.

 

[cait-sith]

does that say "hi mom tramps" on the first line?

(edit: maybe, "hi mem"?)

 

[confucious626]

does that say "hi mom tramps" on the first line?

Close! It says "hi mem tramps".