pausing before booting up

[olivia]

my week 29 macbook is absolutely perfect, but starting yesterday, when i boot up, it stays black for about 20 seconds before turning on (when before it did so almost immediately).

is there anything wrong, or something I can do about it to "fix" it? It's not a big deal and it runs perfectly once it has booted up, it's just the initial part that...stalls or something?

 

[mad jew]

Hmm... Maybe open up Disk Utility in the Utilities folder and Verify the Disk (not the Disk Permissions). Tell us if it reports back with an error.

 

[Bern]

I had this happen to me. I have XP installed also using Bootcamp and even though I chose for OS X to be the default startup disk I decided to go into System Preferences and select OS X again. That worked. I guess somehow the XP partition had a minor effect there somewhere.