Gray screen on startup - Takes 6 minutes to boot up

When I power up my Macbook I get a gray screen and it takes 6 minutes to boot up.

With your configuration. ML will run no sweat.
The problem is that ML is available only as a download via Mac App store
And Mac App Store application is available only in Snow Leo
You might:
Ge t Snow Leo install disc for $29 from Amazon
Then buy ML from the APp Store
or
Get a USB isntall key for Lion (expensive),
then upgrade to ML
the former would be preferred.
UPgrade to ML from Snow Leo will cost ya $19
robertm999 wrote:
My mac runs OS X version 10.5.8, with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, and 2GB 667 MHz DDR SDRAM. I think I'll upgrade, and hopefully it'll work itself out.

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