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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. Post Images? by mkiwi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought it might be nice for everyone to post their images on the web, I'd be interested to see what people put on their startup screens ;D

    http://homepage.mac.com/mkiwi/my-boot-image.jpg

    now i have a reason to restart my computer!

  2. Re:Uptime more important by Hes+Nikke · · Score: 2, Interesting
    or you can kill the boot screen altogether and do this:
    % sudo nvram boot-args="-v"
    now you can see what your machine is doing while it boots - juse like any other unix out there (i don't know if it works under Jaguer, but thats how it is in every other version of Mac OS X from DP3 through 10.1.5)

    (does anyone know how to format it to "set boot-args to debug=0x100" for getting my kernal panic back too?)
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  3. Re:Neat by capmilk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess people are going to miss the Happy Mac for about as long as they missed the Picasso-esque illustration that could be seen until System 7 was renamed Mac OS. I really liked that illustration, but did not miss it for very long. The Happy Mac, well, no. I am not going to miss it. Clarus the dogcow is a different story. ;)