Slow Boot on Macbook

[ElCambo]

For some reason it now takes about 40seconds for the apple logo to even appear when I boot my mac. It used to appear instantly. Why!

 

[squeeks]

mine does the same thing, i wish i knew why, but i have no clue, i just down even shut it down, so hopefully someone knows something about this

 

[e.magnusson]

Try opening up System Preferences and making sure the starup disk is set to Mac OS X 10.4
This happened to me after I installed Windows.

 

[squeeks]

its the only startup disk available for me

 

[ElCambo]

Try opening up System Preferences and making sure the starup disk is set to Mac OS X 10.4
This happened to me after I installed Windows.

I did this after I uninstalled BootCamp and it fixed it, but now the issue is back and its worse than before.

 

[angelodmhl]

I used to have the same problem on my new blackbook when i installed bootcamp and winXP.
Booting my mac while holding command+alt+p+r seemed to work for me.

 

[ElCambo]

WOO thank you Cocktail. Downloaded this program, ran the main tests on it and walla boot times are back to 15-20sec

 

[bplein]

What program?

 

[lazydesi]

What program?

the software is called cocktail

and the link is

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/cocktail.html

 

[skyrider007]

I used to have the same problem on my new blackbook when i installed bootcamp and winXP.
Booting my mac while holding command+alt+p+r seemed to work for me.

did you remove bootcamp or it works fine now?