[gregfripp]

my newish iMac is VERY slow starting up
my screen remains white for about 5 minutes before my mac finally start itself up
any suggestions on how i can fix it?
i darent try discwarrior as it would take ages to start up from the disc....
all ideas welcome
a puzzled greg

[andi*pandi]

I would try discwarrior if you have it. What imac, what version OSX?

[jmiddel]

Have you tried booting in Safe mode (hold Shift on boot)? And, did anything happen with the iMac before the slowdown?

[gregfripp]

tried disc warrior - nothing.
no improvement . still slow startup
i am running 10.8 though
which i quite like
greg
will try safe mode now
nothing really happened to the mac beforehand

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by gregfripp 

tried disc warrior - nothing.
no improvement . still slow startup
i am running 10.8 though
which i quite like

You're running developer beta operating system and are running into problems?



If Apple's developer forums can't help you out (anybody who could is under NDA elsewhere), then reformat the entire drive and reinstall from scratch.

[Doc HM]

Have a look in system preferences and check that you have a startup disc specified. Not specifically selecting the internal boot drive can slow startup quite dramatically, resulting in huge lags between grey screen and the Apple logo appearing. Given that 10.8 is still early beta this clay may be even longer than normal.