According to Apple, the OS is loading only after you see the blue  
screen. It's the blue screen of life, as opposed the BSOD :)

If it is delayed during the gray screen, with the gear cursor  
spinning, it is doing a hardware check and pre-flighting the drive(s).

Steve

On May 10, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Ken Shmidheiser wrote:

> Waverly wrote:
>
>
>> Anyone know how to turn off the memory check performed at startup.
>> Using OSX 10.2.8 and its painful for me to restart the machine  
>> with 640 megs or ram.
>> You used to be able to go to the memory control panel in OS9 and  
>> disable the check.
>> You cant do that and I don't know or find any other way.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
>
> Wave,
>
> I'm assuming you are have long startup times. Often in Jaguar and  
> Panther
> this is caused by corrupted font cache files, rather than a memory  
> check.
>
> Try deleting the following files (they will be rebuilt on restart);
> restart your Mac; and see if there's a difference.
>
> Ken
>
>
> OS X 10.3.x Panther Font Cache files:
>
> System Domain:
>
> /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS.System.fcache
> /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer.FODB_System
> /System/Library/Caches/fontTablesAnnex
>
> Local Domain:
>
> /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/501/Classic.fcache
> /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/501/Local.fcache
> /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/User.fcache
> /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/Classic.fodb
> /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/Local.fodb
> /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/User.fodb
> /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/FondResourceCache
>
>
>
> OS X 10.2.x Jaguar Font Cache files:
>
> System Domain:
>
> /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.FCacheSystemDomain
> /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer.FODB_System
> /System/Library/Caches/fontTablesAnnex
>
> Local Domain:
>
> /Library/Caches/com.apple.FCacheLocalDomain
>
> User Domain:
>
> /Users/~/Library/Caches/com.apple.FCacheClassicDomain
> /Users/~/Library/Caches/com.apple.FCacheUserDomain
> /Users/~/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer.0050E4C50426.FODB_Classic
> /Users/~/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer.0050E4C50426.FODB_Local
> /Users/~/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer.FODB_User
>
> --
>
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