Um, if you run OS X in single-user or verbose mode at the bootloader, regardless of PPC or Intel Macintosh, you can get the console on boot.
Just hold V (or is it command-V?) on any OS X Macintosh and you should get something similar, or provide -v to the mac-boot command in Open Firmware on PPC machines.
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ravuya @ Apr 22nd 2007 6:18PM
Um, if you run OS X in single-user or verbose mode at the bootloader, regardless of PPC or Intel Macintosh, you can get the console on boot.
Just hold V (or is it command-V?) on any OS X Macintosh and you should get something similar, or provide -v to the mac-boot command in Open Firmware on PPC machines.
Not that it's not necessarily a hoax.