slow boot after upgrading
after upgrading to to lion my boot time doubled.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), 8 GB RAM, 2.4 Ghz i5
atcheung wrote:
Same issue, 2010 MacBook Air.
The increased time is spent at the grey startup screen with the Apple in the center. Does anyone else notice that the screen slightly changes the shade of grey after the circle progress indicator disappears, and then sits there for a few minutes before finally going to login screen?
The multiple screens in the boot procedure has perplexed me all along. I'm sure there is some programmer's reason for it. Being used to the gray screen with the Apple logo and the spinning wheel was odd when Lion went to multiple gray screens with Apple logo and the final being a different shade with a blue screen mixed in there is just plain wierd. And the spinning wheel count is MUCH higher than before moving to Lion - Snow Leopard was around 16, Lion - well I stop counting at 60. Big change.
Reading the various posts here on this topic I can see there are many factors involved in the various user configurations that impact the boot process. But it still is a mystery to me.
I'm actually getting used to the longer boot process. Maybe Mountain Lion will address that.
Tom