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After installing Yosemite, boot takes too long

Hi,


I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 (17") and my factory hard disk gone down (I was using Maverick).


I installed an Hybrid Toshiba hard drive (8 Gb SSD / 1 Tb HDD) and also Yosemite.


Everything works fine, but the boot hangs for a while on the apple logo before continue to login screen.


If I clean the PRAM, the boot is at least 1 minute faster. This speed may survive one or two extra restarts. After that it's really slow again, until I reset PRAM again.


Is there any way of monitoring what wrong the OS is trying to write on PRAM and control this without having to clean PRAM every day?


Thanks.

MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 14, 2015 11:32 PM

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May 15, 2015 4:53 AM in response to Scratsh

1. Select Macintosh HD as the Startup Disk.

“Set the default startup disk” http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310


2. Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

Choose the method for:

"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".



3. Start up in Safe Mode. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18760


4. Repair Disk. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836

After installing Yosemite, boot takes too long

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