I bought an old mac mini 2014 i5 2.6 ghz, 8 gb ram, 1tb hdd. I add an ssd nvme 512 gb and installed mac os ventura with oclp, and it runs pretty well. The only issue is that the boot is really slow, 1 minute and a half. How can I solve this?
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Mac mini slow boot
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Yes but I don’t pretend that it loads in 10 seconds, just not almost 2 minutes
Sadly Ventura probably just not optimised for a fusion drive.
I wonder if the hard drive is struggling due to age? Or if it's low on space?
I have a 2.8ghz i5 2014 Mini with 8gb RAM, it also had a 1tb Fusion drive that I separated and am booting from the SSD. Have not timed it, but would estimate that it takes about 15 to 20 seconds to boot Mojave from the internal SSD. So it may just be that Ventura doesn't run well on these old machines.
My 2012 mac mini (i708GB( boot quick using Catalina, and faster with OCLP Monterey last year.
just Catalina and Safari takes maybe 20 seconds to activate, maybe the router is no tin the same room.
users here are experience better boot times compared to 6 or 6.1
just Catalina and Safari takes maybe 20 seconds to activate, maybe the router is no tin the same room.
PaperUack26:
Did we install the new OCLP 6.2 this week?users here are experience better boot times compared to 6 or 6.1
not sure if the OP ever fixed this, but I just encountered the issue on my 2014 mini i7 3.0 where I'm dual booting Monterey and Ventura.
Ventura with OCLP is on a 2TB WD Black 770 blade and Monterey is on the internal 1TB SSD. I was getting a totally black screen which skipped the boot loader option and took about a minute to boot into Ventura. to fix it, I had to reinstall OCLP to the EFI partition on both disks.
now booting into either OS takes between 15-20 seconds.
Ventura with OCLP is on a 2TB WD Black 770 blade and Monterey is on the internal 1TB SSD. I was getting a totally black screen which skipped the boot loader option and took about a minute to boot into Ventura. to fix it, I had to reinstall OCLP to the EFI partition on both disks.
now booting into either OS takes between 15-20 seconds.