Verbose Booting?

[epiqism]

Hi, all!
I just wanted to know: is there any possibility of verbose booting using greenpois0n rc6 on an iptouch 4g? the animated boot logo just won't cut it lol.
Andrew

[Goof]

I've tried finding solutions to enable verbose booting with no luck.

[Orby]

Long story short: at this point in time, verbose booting will come at the cost of a tethered jailbreak, which renders it meaningless. Therefore, until a new exploit is developed, there likely will not be verbose booting available.

Long story: verbose boot requires a custom, not-Apple-signed iBoot. A custom iBoot will not run on a normal iPhone--attempting to load it will halt the bootup (hang tethered) unless there's another exploit preceding the altered iBoot that runs every bootup.

In order to get that iBoot on the device and keep the device untethered, we need a new exploit: either one that allows iBoot to be altered on-the-fly without breaking its signature checks on every boot, or an iBoot/LLB/bootrom exploit that allows an altered iBoot to be loaded in by LLB (and therefore will run).

While limera1n will allow an altered iBoot to get onto the device, and will bootstrap around the resulting tethered situation that results from an altered iBoot, all current exploits for the A4 processor (iPad/i4/iPT4/ATV) do not fulfill either requirement stated above for running a custom iBoot. Therefore, no untethered verbose booting.

It's rather pointless to alter iBoot just to get verbose booting at this point anyway, as you'd never get to see your kernel output with the device tethered and then being required to go in to the filesystem with a pwned iBSS (booting tethered over USB).