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Now that I have my hard drive partitioned, My iMac takes forever to boot up. It spends about a minute on a blank white screen as if it is searching for a disk to boot up to. Then it finally gets to that Apple logo. I have specified in System Preferences to boot up to my Leopard partition, so why is it taking so long to decide what to boot to?
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What are the sizes of your partitions and how much free space is there on each one (especially the boot partition)?
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the boot partition has ~100 GB free space out of 171 GB, the Tiger partition has ~45 GB free out of 60.
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So it was fixed, but now, after an archive and install for an unrelated issue, it once again takes forever to boot up.
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Originally Posted by adamfishercox 
So it was fixed, but now, after an archive and install for an unrelated issue, it once again takes forever to boot up.
This looks like a cat fight inside your iMac.  Sorry, no other ideas. 
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A partitioning would not cause that kind of symptom. Something else is wrong. Have you started up in verbose mode?
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Well, it actually works fine again. i think it may have just been slow because I was restarting after an update. (I have deleted the partition after Final Cut decided that it WOULD like to play nice in Leopard all of a sudden.
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I had that issue once after partitioning for Boot Camp. Resetting the PRAM fixed the delay in my case.
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