I thought we once dealt with long blue screen durations. If so, point me there as I couldn't find it.

If not, here's the problem. I'm experiencing extremely long startups today and this is what I've done.

Booted from a clone and, after very long boot process:

Rebuilt the directory with Disk Warrior
Disconnected power to reset SMC
Cleared PRAM

Still got very long startup so I reinstalled 10.6.8 Combo.

After restart was still:

Blue screen 50 seconds
Chime followed by grey screen for 1:55
Followed by Blue Screen for 8 minutes.

At this point I'm not going to turn it off again without some guidance.

Thanks

Last edited by ryck; 09/19/12 09:10 PM.

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