Safe Boot / Safe Mode — 17 Mar 2003

Looking for something completely different, I fell on the following Knowledge Base article which explains what Safe Boot and Safe Mode are.

Basically, Safe Boot is a special way to startup your Mac and repair your HD, and Safe Mode is the state in which your computer is right after that.

Unfortunately, Safe Boot doesn't give any feedback of what it's up to, or if something has been fixed or not. Booting in Single User Mode and running fsck is much more informative.