Mac OS X System Startup
Friday, July 7th, 2006http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_startup.html
This page briefly describes the sequence of events that happen when Mac OS X boots.
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http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_startup.html
This page briefly describes the sequence of events that happen when Mac OS X boots.
I run OS X on my desktop (settle down now, more on this later).
The default behavior of OS X does not mount external drives at boot time. This is very frustrating. The following command will configure your mac to mount all connected disks at startup (not just upon a user logging in).
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool true
Reboot and you’ll find all your disks already mounted if you ssh in remotely (even without having logged in via the GUI).
If you want to reverse this setting just change “true” to “false” at the end of the line.