No progress bar on start up...

In the last few days I've noticed there is no boot up progress bar. It starts up with the gray screen with the apple logo, then goes to a blue screen for a few moments before my desktop shows up. I seem to recall there being a OSX progress bar that used to pop up over the blue screen. Am I imagining things? And is this something that I need to be concerned about that is no longer appearing? (running 10.5.2)

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I just restarted, and my MBP starts up exactly as you describe. So I think that is normal for Leopard. My iBook, running Tiger, does have a progress bar. That's probably what you remember. I seem to think there were two progress bars for Panther, one for Starting Mac OS X and another one for the firewall.

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