Black screen with white text on boot

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Black screen with white text on boot

Hi, When I boot my mac I see the apple logo for a few seconds. after that I see a black screen with white text then the computer starts up. What is this and how do I fix it?

Any help appreciated

PowerMac G4, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Feb 27, 2008 5:31 PM

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Matt Clifton

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Feb 27, 2008 5:46 PM in response to ilovemacs96

Hi

This is "verbose mode", which is a boot-up mode used mostly for troubleshooting the boot process. Sometimes your system can get into that mode accidentally. Try this: boot up holding down cmd-opt-O-F (to get into Open Firmware). Type:

reset-nvram
reset-all

Your computer should restart; reboot it once more to see if you are now booting normally.

Matt

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