


You could also hold down command-v to start in Verbose mode, then you don't have to worry about the gray screen.īut there's still no easy way of starting up Aqua. Once you login, you can either type reset or clear and the whole screen will go black. You'll get some text saying "Welcome to Darwin" and under it "login:" that will be white text on black, but the rest of the screen will be totally gray. The next time you boot, you will boot directly into the console.Īpple didn't really make provision to do this one, so the screen will stay that nice gray color. # console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secureĭelete the # character from in front of it.Ĭonsole "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/loginwindow" vt100 on secure window=/System/Library/CoreServices/WindowServer onoption="/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" There's a line near the top that looks like this: So there's really not much point unless you like the console.

You can boot directly into the console if you wish, but you're stuck with no (easy) way to start Aqua.
