Boot times vary extremely after SSD install on a Macbook 6,1

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Boot times vary extremely after SSD install on a Macbook 6,1

I have a white unibody Macbook (Macbook6,1), which is factory-built-to-order except for the following components that I installed yesterday:

- 8 GB (2x 4GB) DDR2 RAM from OWC

- OCZ Octane SATA 2.0 256 GB SSD Drive

I have a 100% clean install of OS X Snow Leopard, and all the updates have been performed.

The problem I have is the following: extremely long boot times, but only when booting after a full shutdown.

For example, during the update-restarts the computer re-booted extremely fast (as expected from an SSD).

Also, re-booting after OS X install was fast. When selecting restart from the OS, and watching the restart process, it boots very, very fast.

It's only when I'm starting up from a full shutdown that it seems like I have to wait forever, and by forever I really mean the "gear" is turning over 10 minutes (never bothered to time it, it's very, very long). It's even longer than a 'safe mode' boot (which, in my experiences, performs normally).

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be here? I've read lots of other posts, but don't really see a similar pattern...

(I've also tried the "system preferences"-"select startup disk" item, but that doesn't help, also because the only disk in the system is the SSD...)

Thanks guys!!!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), v6.1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2,26 4GB RAM

Posted on Mar 26, 2012 2:16 AM

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Mar 26, 2012 2:36 AM in response to michaeljgdd

I tried the booting with cmd+V.

It hangs on a specific item, does anyone know where I can get a log of this cmd+V stuff?

Otherwise, I noticed booting after a full shutdown does not hang every time. Only sometimes, I can't seem to capture a rule when it takes ages or when it's blazing fast.

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Mar 26, 2012 3:26 AM in response to michaeljgdd

The drive worked fine booting from an external enclosure as well.

Below from a non-boot (hang) during startup:

Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIP...
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2

Bug: launchctl.c:3557 (23930):6 ioctl(s6, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, &ifra6) != -1
Running fsck on the boot volume...
Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-491.6~3).
launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
AppleAHCIDiskQueueManager::setPowerState(0xceb1b00, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100107 ms

When it boots slow, it hangs a bit on 'executing' and 'launchctl', but I didn't get a "timed out" before.

I just re-booted again and now I get this:

Got boot device = IOService:/Apple....
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2

..and then it went very fast and I saw something like "fsck not needed because volume is journaled", and the desktop appeard instantly after.

Does anyone have any ideas why I'm getting such different booting patterns?

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michaeljgdd Author

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Mar 26, 2012 3:57 AM in response to michaeljgdd

In summary, after a few scenarios, I get:

Very fast boot: something about fsck not needed, but can be "forced -f", but the lines fly by too fast to read.

Slow boot, no hang: slow on "Running fsck_hfs, and "launchctl: Please ...", but the desktop appears after some lines like "[.... ] has arrived".

Slow boot, hangs on boot: either I get the time-out as mentioned above (1), or hundreds of lines mentioning IOError, media not present, ...(2)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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