Does YOUR Intel iMac do this?

[MBHockey]

I have a 24" iMac, and i'm hoping someone can confirm or deny this...

can you boot your iMac in verbose mode (go into terminal and type the following):

sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

Then reboot.

After you hear the chime, the screen should be all white, and then switch to black. Next, on my iMac there is a centered window that appears very briefly (maybe ~2 seconds) and it's talking about com.apple.kernelcaches, and then after that says "loading drivers............", then it switches to full screen verbose mode (white text on black background) and boots.

On my PowerBook, I never used to have that centered window during boot up on verbose mode.

What does your intel iMac look like when it's booking up in verbose mode?

 

[elppa]

You can just hold down the V key, or it might be command-V to achieve the same thing during startup.

 

[MBHockey]

It's cmd+v.

Writing it to the nvram makes it easier to see the results through multiple restarts, however.