So after a few weeks of messing around with it, I deleted the Yosemite beta partition and converted my MBA back to full Mavericks. However, since I did that, the boot process is horribly sluggish. What used to boot up in 6-10 seconds is now taking 20-30 seconds!
When I first tried to delete the Yosemite partition, it was was greyed-out so I did this:
(Many people did this, from all the comments.) Anyway, since then I fixed permissions (for what it's worth) and the darn thing is still booting slow.
I suspect my '12 MBA's sloth-like behavior will cease upon clean-installing Yosemite release later this month. Still, I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue? Did removing the Yosemite partition do something to Mavericks?
Here is my current partition:
When I first tried to delete the Yosemite partition, it was was greyed-out so I did this:
open Terminal
run diskutil coreStorage list
Identify what logical volumn is Yosemite (usually the bottom one.)
run diskutil coreStorage revert "UUID of your Yosemite volume"
Open Disk Utility
Delete Yosemite partition.
(Many people did this, from all the comments.) Anyway, since then I fixed permissions (for what it's worth) and the darn thing is still booting slow.
I suspect my '12 MBA's sloth-like behavior will cease upon clean-installing Yosemite release later this month. Still, I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue? Did removing the Yosemite partition do something to Mavericks?
Here is my current partition: