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Customize The Jaguar Boot Screen

Posted by pudge on from the surprised-it-took-this-long dept.

peperone writes "I heard some complaints about the elimination of the familiar Happy Mac icon on a field of medium gray which used to greet us every time we fired up our Mac. Well, at least until 10.2. This site describes how to customize the boot screen. Fill in the old Happy Mac logo or create a new 128x128 image. Waiting for the first WinXP logos to be posted..." Cool. I made a startup image with the MacPerl icon.

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  1. Uptime more important by mcwetboy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Choosing your boot icon might be important if you actually saw it more than once or twice a month, but this is OS X here. I don't reboot my Mac unless it crashes (very seldom, under known circumstances) or I've installed something (security update) that requires a reboot --otherwise, it stays on (or in sleep mode). I don't want to see a boot icon, at least not very often.

  2. Neat by Knife_Edge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is interesting. I wonder if people really miss the Happy Mac icon that much. True, this technique could be used to make any number of boot images. But it was certainly never developed until 10.2, when Happy Mac was removed. I find myself not missing it much at all. It only displays when I reboot, and that seldom happens. Current uptime is 10 days...