[jfrank]

So I successfully installed Mac OS X on my mini but th only thing that drives me crazy is that everytime I turn the machine on, the Dell welcome screen comes up then the Mac welcome screen comes on. Is there a way to bypass the Dell welcome screen? Also, is there a way to enable the Mac startup sound?

[CyG]

1. The start-up screen is part of the bios, so changing that would be an awful lot of work for a very small reward.
2. The Mac chime is a hardware function. In order to get it to work at the right time, you'd need to mod the internals of your Mini.

[jeffburg]

I haven't tried it, but in the bios isn't there. Setting to do a verbose boot or maybe turning off quick boot would make it use the standard text bios booting that a pc's have had for years. I prefer the dell logo to dos text.

[ferg2k]

Originally Posted by CyG

2. The Mac chime is a hardware function. In order to get it to work at the right time, you'd need to mod the internals of your Mini.

The familiar chime indicates a successful self-test of the hardware in the milliseconds after power-up. The Dell boot logo serves a similar purpose. Because they both occur so early in the hardware boot-up cycle there's no way to replace the Dell logo with the Apple chime.

You can safely assume that at this early point in its bootstrapping, the Dell doesn't yet know how to produce polyphonic sound. Part of Apple's niche is that their hardware is designed to activate advanced graphics and sound much earlier than most other computers.

[emdc]

There's a script that can be run that plays the Apple chime but it doesn't play until everything loads. On my Dell Mac mini 9 that happens 42 seconds after pressing the power button.

[sharksfan]

Originally Posted by emdc

There's a script that can be run that plays the Apple chime but it doesn't play until everything loads. On my Dell Mac mini 9 that happens 42 seconds after pressing the power button.

Indeed. It's setup as an "application" that loads on start up. I kinda prefer the "stealth" mode of my Mini 9

[mfruit]

I've seen references to a Phoenix BIOS Editor for altering the splash screen.

Has anyone been brave enough to try it?

[XCNuse]

Why would it matter? It's got dell logos all over it anyway, why is the BIOS going to change how it acts?

Only problem I have with my BIOS is I just can't stand that it takes .. like 6 seconds almost for the BIOS to come up after I hit the power button.. power saving it may be, but I'm willing to lose 5 minutes to get that instant boot time personally :/