Hi, I wonder if anyone else has the same issue:
Just updated to Monterey from Big Sur - and it takes forever to boot (25+ minutes). Already happened several times.
Before I go through the regular steps for slow boot troubleshooting, I wonder if others have the same issue? And possibly a solution?
iMac 2017 27" 40 GB; 180 GB free space
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 12.0
Thanks, that's good to know.
My system is also on an external SSD drive. So it appears that Monterey has problems specifically with external drives.
Because I was testing Monterey also on my internal drive and there was no issues (the internal drive is Fusion and I don't use it for real work as it's too slow).
I submitted a bug to Apple.
As a developer I have to upgrade early. Usually there's no issues. But Apple screwed up this time with Monterey.
You mentioned "verbose mode output"... How do you activate it - I'm not familiar with this option?
Well, for you anyway. Are all of these people wrong? Were the Apple Geniuses who could not fix them wrong? It took a few days for them to simply update Monterey to the .1 release.
I have same problem
Yes very very frustrating
macOS Monterey takes 25+ minutes to boot
