Verbose mode: highlighted text ?

I have had this happen a few times a while back.
In verbose mode while booting up, A section of text scrolling up the screen abruptly changes from white text on black background to black text on white background.
Kind of like a printer abruptly changing color in the middle of the page. The rest of the text stays the same color, just the new text changes.
I find it kind of unsettling, kind of like someone has used a white highlighter to emphasize the system text.
After a few lines, it reverts back to producing white text/black background, and I have this section of black on white slowly scrolling up the screen.
Has anyone else run into this, or does anyone know of the significance of the "highlighted" text ?
TIA
Kevin

I like watching it booting in verbose better than I like watching a spinning gear.....
I rarely ever reboot this machine, as it crunches Rosetta & Seti 24/7/365.
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I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

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Snow Leopard booting in unwanted Verbose mode

Hi,
Just bought a 2nd hand Mac Mini on which I clean installed Snow Leopard. Whenever I boot the screen goes black and fills with white text with information about the boot process. Verbose Mode, I presume. After the GUI comes in the Mac Mini boots and functions as normal. My question is how do I turn this off. I have tried: "sudo nvram boot-args=" to no effect. Is there another way to stop Verbose mode?

Try resetting PRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

Verbose mode: highlighted text ?

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