Thanks Robin, The panic was not Mr Kernel....it was me!
Kev On 24/12/11 2:30 PM, Robin Belford wrote: > Kevin, > It sounds like that mac is starting in verbose mode. > > > Typically if you wanted to boot in verbose mode you would hit Command-V > during startup, which brings up the familiar white on black console. If you’d > prefer to always see the system messages on boot, you can adjust the firmware > from the Terminal with the nvram command. > > > To turn on Verbose booting, at the Terminal type the following: > sudo nvram boot-args="-v" > > Disabling Verbose booting is just as easy: > sudo nvram boot-args= > > If you’re curious what the current firmware nvram settings are, type the > following: > nvram -p > > Again, if you just want to boot into verbose mode once, hold the following > keys on system boot: > Command+V > > Hope this helps. > > robin > > On 24/12/2011, at 11:15 AM, Kevin Lock wrote: > >> I am readying an eMac for a young person and at startup it acts a bit >> like a PC starting, showing a black text labelled 'Darwin Kernel' and >> after spewing out lots of information goes on to start up the OS as normal. >> >> Is there a setting in the system which turns this off or is it a symptom >> of a Kernel Panic? I don't want to give this person the machine and >> then have to replace it later. >> >> Any advice gratefully received. >> >> Kev >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings& Unsubscribe >> -<http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings& Unsubscribe > -<http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
