Tiger boot process question

If you hold command-v during boot you will enter single-user verbose mode. That will give you a command line interface and list all the services as they're loaded during startup. When you're done reading all the text (have fun), type "reboot" (without the quotes of course) and press return.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1492

More info...

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/arch_startup.html

http://osxdaily.com/2007/01/22/what-happens-in-the-mac-os-x-boot-process/

http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon/full_papers/sanchez/sanchez_html/

You're welcome, figured you're going for an A+ & needed a bit more! 😉

Launch Disk Utility. It's pretty easy to find in there.

Yet another source of information is Activity Monitor, which has a listing of active processes which you can sort by user or process ID, for instance. Neither verbose boot or system logs give a full picture of the processes that are starting up, as some of them do not generate console output.

Another thing you can try is opening a terminal session and enter the following command:

ps -auxc | sort <enter>

What you are looking for, basically, are root processes started at boot time. This is best done shortly after bringing the system up to get a better feel for when processes launched. You might see a listing that looks something like this First a picture of the header and then a picture of what the interesting processes might look like):

Mind you, you would see more time resolution than what's shown above, since my last boot was on Friday at 3:09 PM, but you can see the bottom entry, ocspd would not have been started at boot time. You can also direct the output to a file, for instance. I would do that this way (using your documents folder, for instance, as a target):

ps -auxc | sort -> ~/Documents/file_name.txt <enter>

Where you can substitute the file name you really want.

(inset to the right & below),In Disk Utility, clicking on the Whole Drive & then the blue Info icon gives you info, clickiing on the partition, (inset to the right & below), gives you more info.

Macs use HFS+, or Mac OS Extended as their primary file system...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus