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DenBeke

macrumors regular
Original poster
Aug 11, 2011
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Antwerp
Sometime my Mac Pro 4,1 boots in verbose mode (or single user mode, I don't really know the difference, but it asks to type 'exit' to boot the system).

This it not always, but it happens often.
Should I be worried?
Can I do something to make it always boot as it has to do?
 
You could run a disk check and verify the permissions on your boot drive.

I'll give that a try, however I don't believe it will help. Because It's just a fresh OS X installation, and in fact I had the same problem also with another installation...

But we never know... :)

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In the Console I've read the following lines (of course lots of other lines above, but they didn't seem too interesting...)
Is this helpful?

Code:
5/09/13 08:30:37,000 kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT2@2/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/M4-CT128M4SSD2 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Macintosh HD@2
5/09/13 08:30:37,000 kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 2
5/09/13 08:30:37,000 kernel[0]: Kernel is LP64
5/09/13 08:30:37,000 kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 823f built-in now active, GUID 0023dffffedc2b04; max speed s800.
5/09/13 08:30:37,000 kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 00000032D0A4 0x57b 0x20 0x408
5/09/13 08:30:22,244 com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up in single-user mode. ***
5/09/13 08:30:22,267 com.apple.launchd[1]: *** Verbose boot, will log to /dev/console. ***
 
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