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OS X: Verbose Boot

Want to know what is going on in OS X when you boot? Trying to find out why your system will not boot? By booting with verbose mode, you can see everything going on behind the scenes during the boot-up process.


In trying to install the latest version of OS X, I would just get the reboot screen after about 5 minutes. I couldn’t figure out what was going on.

By booting up into verbose mode, I could see where in the boot-up process I was getting the panic.

Reboot the system and as it starts to come up hold down the following keys:

CMD-V

Instead of the typical pretty start-up screen, you’ll see the boot-up process with white on black text.

David Kirk
David Kirk
David Kirk is one of the original founders of tech-recipes and is currently serving as editor-in-chief. Not only has he been crafting tutorials for over ten years, but in his other life he also enjoys taking care of critically ill patients as an ICU physician.
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