Starting in Safe Mode

[AstroHouse]

I started (because I wanted to) my MBA into safe mode. Just hadn't tried it before. It took, what seemed, an inordinate amount of time to boot.

I pressed the shift ket at the BONG and released at the spinning gear screen.

Is this normal? Does OS X perform disc read/write, verification, cache handling, etc. that causes the lengthy boot?

New to Mac and just curious.

Thanks.

 

[misterredman]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392

 

[mr666]

"Safe Boot" not "Safe Mode"

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