growing boot time

[jassd]

Since installing the latest security release last week, I have noticed a signifigantly increased boot time. I also sporadically get a mesage that the disk I have inserted has a format unrecognized by the system. I have tried running disk repair and Macjanitor to no avail. Any ideas ?

[Artanis]

Check the "Startup Disk" in System Preferences and make sure that you have the macintosh hd set as boot volume.

[jassd]

It was set correctly

[max_naylor]

Do you boot your Mac everyday? Or has it just been the one time since the security update? My MacBook always boots slower the one time after an update, but I only reboot about once a week. I dunno. Maybe check your disk space.

[jassd]

I boot every morning and disk space is plentiful

[max_naylor]

It's a mystery. To be honest I think it's just an affect of applying updates—some seem to make OS X boot faster and some make it slower. I don't know if the amount of fonts you have on your system still affects how quickly OS X boots—wasn't this an issue with OS 9?

[Marvin]

Boot up in verbose mode by holding command-v and see where it's spending most of its time.

[MTO]

Go into system preferences - accounts - login items and make sure its clear.