October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
17h 59m
English
Time
This chapter takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
Goals
Understand the Lion startup process
Identify the essential files and processes required to successfully start up Lion
Troubleshoot the startup and login processes
System startup certainly isn’t the most glamorous part of Lion, but it’s clearly important and technically quite impressive. Apple has improved startup and runtime processes with every revision of Mac OS X. When things work correctly, the startup process is often under 30 seconds. Obviously, users appreciate a quick startup, but most don’t and shouldn’t have to care what goes on during system startup because they expect their Macs to work properly.
However, when things do go wrong during system ...
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