After installing Mountain Lion, is anyone get an interruption of the boot up process?

During the boot up process of my iMac, the system goes to a script screen with a lot of information ending with it saying "exit the script if I want to boot up". I just type in exit and the Mac sign on screen finaly comes up.
This has happend 3 times in my last 5 startups since installing Mountain Lion.
I've installed Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro and my Macbook without any issues, this only happens on my iMac.

Not quite the same as this thread, but similar perhaps: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4155959?tstart=0
Tyr the PRAM reset as suggested by BDAqua - might work.

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