IMac Slow Boot/Start up with firewire disk connected

I have recently purchased a a WD FreeAgent 1Tb external disk, to use as a Time Machine drive.
Since connecting this drive, the boot time has increased from less than a minute to nearly 5 mins.
I presume my iMac is doing some kind of check of this drive, and because its 1TB it is taking an age. Is there anyway to get my computer to ignore this disk on start up?
Is this a problem with Leopard? IS it resolved in snow leopard.
I have read some posts that suggest unplugging the drive on each start up, is this really what i have to do?, as its a bit of a pain.

It is not a general problem with Leopard. I have a 750GB drive that is used for Time Machine (via USB 2.0), a FireWire external drive, up to three iPods (FireWire and USB), and sometimes a smaller emergency/maintenance startup external drive connected during startup, and the startup time is not noticeably affected based on what is or is not connected.
Can you explain which part of the startup sequence is being delayed. Is the screen still grey? Has the Apple logo appeared with the spinning wheel? Has the screen turned blue? Is it that last part, when the Desktop is being assembled on the screen?
Have you reset PRAM?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Have you run Disk Utility and used +Repair Disk Permissions+ on your startup volume recently.
Since the issue seems to be related to this 1TB drive, have you run Disk Utility and used +Repair Disk+ on that drive, to check for disk directory or disk data corruption errors? Time Machine does some complex file management, so such errors are quite possible, and that may be the cause of the delay during startup.

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Very slow boot on MacBook with Mountain Lion

My MacBook Pro Core i7 2.7 Ghz and OS X 10.8.4 has been experienced very slow boots, I've tried several things that I read here and there, here I post the console log, PLEASE HELP!!!
18/07/13 21:14:55.000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1374200095 0
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: PMAP: PCID enabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 1827652 free pages and 253116 wired pages
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: kext submap [0xffffff7f80737000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff8000737000]
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: zone leak detection enabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: standard background quantum is 2500 us
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 74
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: TSC Deadline Timer supported and enabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto kext started!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Running kernel space in FIPS MODE
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Plist hmac value is    735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Computed hmac value is 735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS integrity POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES CBC POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS TDES CBC POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES ECB AESNI POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES XTS AESNI POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS SHA POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS HMAC POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS ECDSA POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS DRBG POST test passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS POST passed!
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=2 Enabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=3 Enabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=8 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5]
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: PFM64 (36 cpu) 0xf80000000, 0x80000000
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration begin ]
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 0057
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 18:11:47 May 1 2013) initialization complete
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: console relocated to 0xf80000000
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: PCI configuration changed (bridge=16 device=4 cardbus=0)
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration end, bridges 12 devices 16 ]
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: mbinit: done [96 MB total pool size, (64/32) split]
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 0230F72E-AF85-35CF-B3DF-8B5F1BB1AB40
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: BTCOEXIST off
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: BRCM tunables:
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: pullmode[1] txringsize[ 256] txsendqsize[1024] reapmin[   32] reapcount[ 128]
18/07/13 21:14:57.728 com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 70cd60fffeb76f2e; max speed s800.
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleIntelPchS eriesAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOB lockStorageDriver/ST9500325ASG Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Customer@2
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 1
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: Kernel is LP64
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::checkStatus - received Status Packet, Payload 2: device was reinitialized
18/07/13 21:14:57.728 com.apple.launchd[1]: *** Shutdown logging is enabled. ***
18/07/13 21:15:12.539 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.automountd) Unknown key for boolean: NSSupportsSuddenTermination
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: BCM5701Enet: Ethernet address 10:9a:dd:67:16:ad
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331: Ethernet address e0:f8:47:41:49:2a
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
18/07/13 21:15:12.000 kernel[0]: IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished():
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: IOBluetoothUSBDFU::probe
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: IOBluetoothUSBDFU::probe ProductID - 0x821A FirmwareVersion - 0x0041
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: [BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport][start] -- completed
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][staticBluetoothHCIControllerTransportShowsUp] -- Received Bluetooth Controller register service notification
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][start] -- completed
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: USBF:          19.312          IOUSBInterface[0xffffff803f35c000]::joinPMtree - could not find the hub device
18/07/13 21:15:14.170 airportd[27]: _processDLILEvent: en1 attached (down)
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController::setConfigState] calling registerService
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: createVirtIf(): ifRole = 1
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: in func createVirtualInterface ifRole = 1
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331_P2PInterface::init name <p2p0> role 1 this 0xffffff803fcfa400
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331_P2PInterface::init() <p2p> role 1
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: Created virtif 0xffffff803fcfa400 p2p0
18/07/13 21:15:14.000 kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived
18/07/13 21:15:14.979 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100000 created
18/07/13 21:15:15.000 kernel[0]: mTail has not been written to hardware: mTail = 0x00000000, hardare tail register = 0x00000040
18/07/13 21:15:15.974 configd[18]: setting hostname to "MacBook-Pro-de-Joaquin-Galvan-Ramirez.local"
18/07/13 21:15:15.000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 1 (Unspecified).
18/07/13 21:15:15.000 kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed
18/07/13 21:15:15.978 configd[18]: network changed.
18/07/13 21:15:20.790 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Entering service
18/07/13 21:15:26.109 hidd[57]: Posting 'com.apple.iokit.hid.displayStatus' notifyState=1
18/07/13 21:15:27.000 kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
18/07/13 21:15:30.528 kdc[54]: label: default
18/07/13 21:15:30.528 kdc[54]:           dbname: od:/Local/Default
18/07/13 21:15:30.528 kdc[54]:           mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key
18/07/13 21:15:30.529 kdc[54]:           acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl
18/07/13 21:15:30.565 mDNSResponder[48]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-379.38.1 (Apr 25 2013 19:19:56) starting OSXVers 12
18/07/13 21:15:30.628 loginwindow[51]: Login Window Application Started
18/07/13 21:15:30.639 UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: [HandleNetworkInformationChanged:2435] nwi_state_copy returned NULL
18/07/13 21:15:30.713 systemkeychain[74]: done file: /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.done
18/07/13 21:15:30.718 kdc[54]: WARNING Found KDC certificate (O=System Identity,CN=com.apple.kerberos.kdc)is missing the PK-INIT KDC EKU, this is bad for interoperability.
18/07/13 21:15:30.846 awacsd[67]: Starting awacsd connectivity-78.3 (Apr 25 2013 19:22:44)
18/07/13 21:15:30.848 awacsd[67]: InnerStore CopyAllZones: no info in Dynamic Store
18/07/13 21:15:31.135 coreservicesd[71]: FindBestLSSession(), no match for inSessionID 0xfffffffffffffffc auditTokenInfo( uid=0 euid=0 auSessionID=100000 create=false
18/07/13 21:15:31.135 WindowServer[72]: Server is starting up
18/07/13 21:15:31.285 appleeventsd[63]: main: Starting up
18/07/13 21:15:31.728 com.apple.usbmuxd[36]: usbmuxd-296.4 on Dec 21 2012 at 16:11:14, running 64 bit
18/07/13 21:15:32.000 kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
18/07/13 21:15:32.000 kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165
18/07/13 21:15:32.330 configd[18]: network changed: DNS*
18/07/13 21:15:32.332 mDNSResponder[48]: D2D_IPC: Loaded
18/07/13 21:15:32.333 mDNSResponder[48]: D2DInitialize succeeded
18/07/13 21:15:32.907 digest-service[96]: label: default
18/07/13 21:15:32.908 digest-service[96]:           dbname: od:/Local/Default
18/07/13 21:15:32.908 digest-service[96]:           mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key
18/07/13 21:15:32.908 digest-service[96]:           acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl
18/07/13 21:15:32.909 digest-service[96]: digest-request: uid=0
18/07/13 21:15:32.925 aosnotifyd[97]: bootstrap_look_up failed (44e)
18/07/13 21:15:32.932 rpcsvchost[100]: sandbox_init: com.apple.msrpc.netlogon.sb succeeded
18/07/13 21:15:32.936 digest-service[96]: digest-request: init request
18/07/13 21:15:32.939 digest-service[96]: digest-request: init return domain: BUILTIN server: MACBOOK-PRO-DE-JOAQUIN-GALVAN-RAMIREZ
18/07/13 21:15:32.956 InternetSharing[55]: objc[55]: Object 0x7fc1a2c085a0 of class __NSDictionaryM autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug
18/07/13 21:15:32.959 com.apple.InternetSharing[55]: *** no interface for service
18/07/13 21:15:33.192 kdc[54]: KDC started
18/07/13 21:15:33.353 locationd[52]: NOTICE,Location icon should now be in state 0
18/07/13 21:15:33.756 mds[47]: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
18/07/13 21:15:34.000 kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1   Auth result for: 08:76:ff:56:44:c8 MAC AUTH succeeded
18/07/13 21:15:34.000 kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP virtIf = 0
18/07/13 21:15:34.000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
18/07/13 21:15:34.000 kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to 08:76:ff:56:44:c8
18/07/13 21:15:34.000 kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed
18/07/13 21:15:34.951 netbiosd[105]: Unable to start NetBIOS name service:
18/07/13 21:15:36.405 apsd[69]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
18/07/13 21:15:36.406 apsd[69]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
18/07/13 21:15:37.222 com.apple.InternetSharing[55]: *** no interface for service
18/07/13 21:15:38.242 configd[18]: network changed: v4(en1+:192.168.1.72) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB+
18/07/13 21:15:38.267 UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: en1: Not probing 'FAM. GALVAN CAMARA' (protected network)
18/07/13 21:15:38.270 configd[18]: network changed: v4(en1!:192.168.1.72) DNS Proxy SMB
18/07/13 21:15:37.443 ntpd[94]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec
18/07/13 21:15:38.688 airportd[27]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “FAM. GALVAN CAMARA”. Bailing on auto-join.
18/07/13 21:15:38.700 airportd[27]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “FAM. GALVAN CAMARA”. Bailing on auto-join.
18/07/13 21:15:38.711 airportd[27]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “FAM. GALVAN CAMARA”. Bailing on auto-join.
18/07/13 21:15:39.903 stackshot[39]: Timed out waiting for IOKit to finish matching.
18/07/13 21:15:41.817 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xprotectupdater[33]) Exited with code: 252
18/07/13 21:15:44.849 awacsd[67]: Exiting
18/07/13 21:15:45.407 apsd[69]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
18/07/13 21:16:11.674 configd[18]: InterfaceNamer: timed out waiting for IOKit to quiesce
18/07/13 21:16:11.674 configd[18]: Busy services :
18/07/13 21:16:11.674 configd[18]:   MacBookPro8,1 [1, 77845 ms]
18/07/13 21:16:11.674 configd[18]:   MacBookPro8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert [1, 77829 ms]
18/07/13 21:16:11.675 configd[18]:   MacBookPro8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0 [1, 77806 ms]
18/07/13 21:16:11.675 configd[18]:   MacBookPro8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI [1, 77797 ms]
18/07/13 21:16:11.675 configd[18]:   MacBookPro8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/RP01@1C [1, 77800 ms]
18/07/13 21:16:11.675 configd[18]:   MacBookPro8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/RP01@1C/IOPCI2PCIBrid ge [1, 77794 ms]
18/07/13 21:16:11.675 configd[18]:   MacBookPro8,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/RP01@1C/IOPCI2PCIBrid ge/SDXC@0,1 [!matched, 1, 77794 ms]
18/07/13 21:16:30.134 WindowServer[72]: Set a breakpoint at CGSLogError to catch errors as they are logged.
18/07/13 21:16:30.134 WindowServer[72]: IOKitWaitQuiet: (iokit/common) I/O Timeout
18/07/13 21:16:30.138 WindowServer[72]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
18/07/13 21:16:30.138 WindowServer[72]: Session 256 released (1 references)
18/07/13 21:16:30.146 WindowServer[72]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
18/07/13 21:16:30.146 WindowServer[72]: init_page_flip: page flip mode is on
18/07/13 21:16:30.208 WindowServer[72]: mux_initialize: kAGCGetMuxState (kMuxControl, kMuxControl_switchingMode) failed (0xe0000001)
18/07/13 21:16:30.209 WindowServer[72]: mux_initialize: Mode is safe
18/07/13 21:16:30.220 WindowServer[72]: GLCompositor enabled for tile size [256 x 256]
18/07/13 21:16:30.220 WindowServer[72]: CGXGLInitMipMap: mip map mode is on
18/07/13 21:16:30.240 WindowServer[72]: WSMachineUsesNewStyleMirroring: false
18/07/13 21:16:30.240 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x042731c0: GL mask 0x1; bounds (0, 0)[1280 x 800], 10 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9cc7, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009cc700000000042731c0
18/07/13 21:16:30.240 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x003f003f: GL mask 0x8; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 3, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003f
18/07/13 21:16:30.240 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x003f003e: GL mask 0x4; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 2, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003e
18/07/13 21:16:30.240 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d
18/07/13 21:16:30.242 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0x5 for display 0x042731c0
18/07/13 21:16:30.242 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0x6 for display 0x003f003f
18/07/13 21:16:30.242 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0x7 for display 0x003f003e
18/07/13 21:16:30.242 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0x8 for display 0x003f003d
18/07/13 21:16:30.244 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x042731c0: GL mask 0x1; bounds (0, 0)[1280 x 800], 10 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9cc7, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009cc700000000042731c0
18/07/13 21:16:30.244 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x003f003f: GL mask 0x8; bounds (2304, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 3, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003f
18/07/13 21:16:30.244 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x003f003e: GL mask 0x4; bounds (2305, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 2, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003e
18/07/13 21:16:30.244 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (2306, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d
18/07/13 21:16:30.244 WindowServer[72]: CGXPerformInitialDisplayConfiguration
18/07/13 21:16:30.244 WindowServer[72]:   Display 0x042731c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; Vendor 0x610 Model 0x9cc7 S/N 0 Dimensions 11.26 x 7.05; online enabled built-in, Bounds (0,0)[1280 x 800], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
18/07/13 21:16:30.244 WindowServer[72]:   Display 0x003f003f: MappedDisplay Unit 3; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (2304,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
18/07/13 21:16:30.244 WindowServer[72]:   Display 0x003f003e: MappedDisplay Unit 2; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (2305,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
18/07/13 21:16:30.245 WindowServer[72]:   Display 0x003f003d: MappedDisplay Unit 1; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (2306,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
18/07/13 21:16:30.245 WindowServer[72]: CGXMuxBoot: Unexpected boot switch return value (0xe00002c7)
18/07/13 21:16:30.307 WindowServer[72]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024301, GL mask 0x0000000f, accelerator 0x000044cb, unit 0, caps QEX|QGL|MIPMAP, vram 579 MB
18/07/13 21:16:30.307 WindowServer[72]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024301, GL mask 0x0000000f, texture units 8, texture max 8192, viewport max {8192, 8192}, extensions FPRG|NPOT|GLSL|FLOAT
18/07/13 21:16:30.310 loginwindow[51]: **DMPROXY** Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
18/07/13 21:16:30.323 hidd[57]: void __IOHIDLoadBundles(): Loaded 0 HID plugins
18/07/13 21:16:30.342 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0x9 for display 0x042731c0
18/07/13 21:16:30.342 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x042731c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferTable (256, 3)
18/07/13 21:16:30.381 launchctl[117]: com.apple.findmymacmessenger: Already loaded
18/07/13 21:16:30.396 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100006 created
18/07/13 21:16:30.452 UserEventAgent[120]: cannot find useragent 1102
18/07/13 21:16:30.480 airportd[118]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “FAM. GALVAN CAMARA”. Bailing on auto-join.
18/07/13 21:16:30.606 hidd[57]: CGSShutdownServerConnections: Detaching application from window server
18/07/13 21:16:30.606 hidd[57]: CGSDisplayServerShutdown: Detaching display subsystem from window server
18/07/13 21:16:32.243 WindowServer[72]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
18/07/13 21:16:32.275 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x042731c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferTable (256, 3)
18/07/13 21:16:32.286 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x042731c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferTable (256, 3)
18/07/13 21:16:55.434 distnoted[130]: # distnote server agent absolute time: 121.716205193   civil time: Thu Jul 18 21:16:55 2013   pid: 130 uid: 502 root: no
18/07/13 21:17:00.134 warmd[35]: [warmctl_evt_timer_bc_activation_timeout:286] BC activation bcstop timer fired!
18/07/13 21:17:12.256 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100002 created
18/07/13 21:17:12.332 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100003 created
18/07/13 21:19:29.185 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0xa for display 0x042731c0
18/07/13 21:19:29.185 WindowServer[72]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x0(0)
18/07/13 21:19:29.195 WindowServer[72]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x0(0)
18/07/13 21:19:31.358 com.apple.usbmuxd[36]: _heartbeat_failed heartbeat detected detach for device 0x1-192.168.1.74:0!
18/07/13 21:19:42.764 WindowServer[72]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: no lock state data
18/07/13 21:19:42.765 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0xb for display 0x003f003d
18/07/13 21:19:42.766 WindowServer[72]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: no lock state data
18/07/13 21:19:42.766 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0xc for display 0x003f003e
18/07/13 21:19:42.766 WindowServer[72]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: no lock state data
18/07/13 21:19:42.767 WindowServer[72]: Created shield window 0xd for display 0x003f003f
18/07/13 21:19:42.767 WindowServer[72]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: no lock state data
18/07/13 21:20:30.599 hidd[57]: Timeout waiting for IOKit to be quiet
18/07/13 21:21:01.206 WindowServer[72]: Unable to open IOHIDSystem (e00002bd)
18/07/13 21:21:01.000 kernel[0]: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task_t, void *, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)
18/07/13 21:21:01.551 loginwindow[51]: Login Window Started Security Agent
18/07/13 21:21:01.782 SecurityAgent[149]: This is the first run
18/07/13 21:21:01.782 SecurityAgent[149]: MacBuddy was run = 0
18/07/13 21:21:01.806 SecurityAgent[149]: User info context values set for scat111
18/07/13 21:21:02.566 loginwindow[51]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
18/07/13 21:21:02.589 loginwindow[51]: ERROR | ScreensharingLoginNotification | Failed sending message to screen sharing GetScreensharingPort, err: 1102
18/07/13 21:21:02.629 loginwindow[51]: USER_PROCESS: 51 console
18/07/13 21:21:02.722 airportd[151]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “FAM. GALVAN CAMARA”. Bailing on auto-join.
18/07/13 21:21:02.790 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[127]: (com.divx.agent.postinstall) Unknown key: LimitToSessionType
18/07/13 21:21:02.790 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[127]: (com.apple.gamed) Ignored this key: UserName
18/07/13 21:21:02.790 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[127]: (com.apple.gamed) Ignored this key: GroupName
18/07/13 21:21:02.791 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[127]: (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
18/07/13 21:21:02.795 loginwindow[51]: Connection with distnoted server was invalidated
18/07/13 21:21:02.916 WindowServer[72]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
18/07/13 21:21:02.974 WindowServer[72]: Display 0x042731c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferTable (256, 3)
18/07/13 21:21:03.793 talagent[161]: _LSSetApplicationInformationItem(kLSDefaultSessionID, asn, _kLSApplicationIsHiddenKey, hidden ? kCFBooleanTrue : kCFBooleanFalse, NULL) produced OSStatus -50 on line 623 in TCApplication.m
18/07/13 21:21:03.808 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[127]: (com.apple.afpstat-qfa[185]) Exited with code: 2
18/07/13 21:21:03.816 talagent[161]: _LSSetApplicationInformationItem(kLSDefaultSessionID, asn, TAL_kLSIsProxiedForTALKey, kCFBooleanTrue, NULL) produced OSStatus -50 on line 626 in TCApplication.m
18/07/13 21:21:03.859 blued[165]: kBTXPCUpdateUserPreferences gConsoleUserUID = 502
18/07/13 21:21:04.496 coreaudiod[167]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
18/07/13 21:21:04.693 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[127]: (com.apple.mrt.uiagent[175]) Exited with code: 255
18/07/13 21:21:05.843 loginwindow[51]: Login items - LSOpenApplication returned error -10660, url=/Users/scat111/.Trash/Dropbox.app
18/07/13 21:21:05.843 loginwindow[51]: Unable to lauch startup item: (null)
18/07/13 21:21:05.859 SystemUIServer[163]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
18/07/13 21:21:05.860 SystemUIServer[163]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
18/07/13 21:21:05.895 NetworkBrowserAgent[208]: Starting NetworkBrowserAgent
18/07/13 21:21:07.659 apsd[192]: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.ubd.system-push': Unknown service name
18/07/13 21:21:10.901 com.apple.time[153]: Interval maximum value is 946100000 seconds (specified value: 9223372036854775807).
18/07/13 21:21:21.421 com.apple.time[153]: Interval maximum value is 946100000 seconds (specified value: 9223372036854775807).
18/07/13 21:21:25.294 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100010 created
18/07/13 21:22:03.019 SubmitDiagInfo[239]: Launched to submit Diagnostics and Usage
18/07/13 21:25:42.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(250) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
18/07/13 21:25:43.205 sandboxd[250]: ([248]) WebProcess(248) deny iokit-open AppleGraphicsPolicyClient
18/07/13 21:31:45.820 coreaudiod[167]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active
18/07/13 21:31:45.994 coreaudiod[167]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
18/07/13 21:34:12.414 WindowServer[72]: CGXRegisterWindowWithSystemStatusBar: window 15 already registered

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click the line of text below on this page to select it:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -f -a TextEdit
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. You can then close the TextEdit window. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
{ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|org\.(amav|apac|cups|isc|ntp|postf|x)/{print $3}'; sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook; sudo crontab -l; } 2> /dev/null | open -f -a TextEdit
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before taking this step. If that’s not possible, skip to the next step.
Step 3
{ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'; crontab -l 2> /dev/null; } | open -f -a TextEdit
Step 4
ls -1A /e*/{la,mach}* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts .la* 2> /dev/null | open -f -a TextEdit
Important: If you formerly synchronized with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.
Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' | open -f -a TextEdit
Remember, steps 1-5 are all copy-and-paste — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal.

MacBook Pro Boot Hangs when Firewire Disk Connected

I have a 13" Late 2011 MacBook Pro with SSD running Mountain Lion 10.8.1. I have a 1 TB WD Firewire disk attached. I boot from the internal SSD.
On a regular basis when I turn my computer on, it starts up but gets hung during the boot process. If I turn it back off, disconnect the FW and then turn it back on, it boots normally. I can then plug back in the FW and it runs fine.
This problem has started since I upgraded OSX, although I added the SSD around the same time. I have updated to the latest firmware on the external WD disk. All Mountain Lion updates have been loaded.
Any ideas how to fix this problem or where to look for further information.

I have a 13" Late 2011 MacBook Pro with SSD running Mountain Lion 10.8.1. I have a 1 TB WD Firewire disk attached. I boot from the internal SSD.
On a regular basis when I turn my computer on, it starts up but gets hung during the boot process. If I turn it back off, disconnect the FW and then turn it back on, it boots normally. I can then plug back in the FW and it runs fine.
This problem has started since I upgraded OSX, although I added the SSD around the same time. I have updated to the latest firmware on the external WD disk. All Mountain Lion updates have been loaded.
Any ideas how to fix this problem or where to look for further information.

Help!!! My iMac will NOT start up from any disk!

I was attempting to delete some files that had been in a separate partition on my older TM backup, in order to copy it to my new 2TB external drive. (The first time, it copied it as two partitions, which was NOT what I wanted! It worked fine, except that it needed more room already!)
In retrospect, these files appeared to be an alias of all my system, application & user folders. which I was unable to trash, but was able to trash most of them individually. Big mistake!
My iMac is getting a "?", a file icon and a 0 w/a line through it.
So, I apparently have all these key folders in my trash (I was unable to get rid of them). Unfortunately have been unable to start it with either of my two TM drives (both had been unmounted), nor my cloned drive, nor my OS install drive or any other utility drives.
Any suggestions to try before I bring it in to my local Apple store?
Thank you!
PS- I just heard of Steve Jobs death, and am so saddened to hear it...

I said "My iMac is getting a "?", a file icon and a 0 w/a line through it."
I should have included the folder icon that alternates w/the above two ...
Please! Any help (and/or suggestions) is appreciated!

Boot from san with local disk

I have some B200M3's with local disk. I would like to configure them to boot from san. I've setup a service profile template with a boot policy to boot from CD first and then the SAN. I have a local disk configuration policy to mirror the local disks. I've zoned the machines so that it presently only sees one path to the storage because I'm installing windows and I don't want it to see the disks funky because of multiple paths to the same disk. When I boot the machine it sees the disk. I boot to the Windows 2012R2 iso and load the drivers for the cisco mlom and then the single lun will appear. The local disk will also appear. It can't install Windows 2012R2 on the SAN disk only the local disk. It sees the local disk as disk 0 and the san disk as disk 3. I don't know how to get the machine to see the san disk as disk 0. I have the lun (which resides on an vnx5600) as lun 0. The boot policy is configured to have the san lun as lun 0. It even appears while booting the san lun appears as lun 0. The error I'm getting from the windows installer is: We couldn't install Windows in the location you chose. Please check your media drive. Here's more info about what happened: 0x80300001. Any suggestions to get this to boot from SAN.

Hi
during the boot up process, do you see the wwpn of the target showing that the VIC can talk to the storage?
Reboot the server in question, when you see the option to get into bios press F2, ssh to the primary fabrics a run the following commands
connect adapter (x/x/x). <--- (chassis #/slot #/adapter#)
connect
attach-fls
lunlist
(provide output of last command)
lunmap
(provide output of last command)

Every time when I shutdown my 24"iMac, it will start up with a corrupted HD need to be formatted and restored. Anyone has the same problem?

Every time after shutting down my 24" iMac, it will end up with a corrupted HD which cannot be fixed by disk utility and require to reformat the HD and restore.
I noticed the Mac OS journal format will turn into no journal. Does anybody have he same problem?

I have to ask; Are you using the Shut Down... menu item in the "apple" menu to shut down? Does it shut down normally when you do?

K7N2 Delta2-LSR - SATA disk does not boot with IDE disk connected

I have K7N2 Delta2-LSR with SATA 160GB drive and CD burner connected as primary master.
When I'm connecting any IDE hard disk, the mainboard detects it corectly, but I'm not able to boot from SATA drive.
I tried to turn off IDE drive detection in BIOS (set [None] instead of [Auto]) and SATA boots!!! And Windows XP and Linux can see both disks!!!
Is it a BUG in BIOS?
Maciek
K7N2 Delta2-LSR (with latest BIOS Sep 18, 2004)
Athlon XP (Barton) 2800+
SATA drive WD 160GB
GF4MX440
FSB333, DDRAM 512MB/400
PSU 350W, works stable with 2 HDs and CDRW.

Strange my board boots fine from SATA with a PATA HDD connected. XP and Linux will see any disks connected to the motherboard and powered up in your system even if disabled in the bios apart from those connected to a separate raid controller which should be enabled. Both these operating systems address the hardware directly once their drivers are loaded so will ignore the settings you have in the bios. This behaviour is normal and not a bios bug. The main boot disk has of course to be enabled in the bios for the boot loader to operate. The boot priority with the new south bridge is PATA first followed by SATA and XP uses this too. To ensure that XP boots from SATA properly the PATA drive must be disconnected during the install process. You also need to ensure that the SATA disk is the only active partition connected to your system. If the PATA disk has been used to boot an operating system previously there may still be an active partition present on the drive. If that is the case removing the active partition should cure the problem but if the present arrangement works for you then fine.

Dual G4 Won't start up with ethernet internet connection plugged in

Hi,
My Dual 533mhz won't start up when the ethernet cord is pluged in. This recently started happening out of the blue (at least, I can't recall doing anything that might cause this). When I leave the ethernet cord in, the computer starts up with a network disk icon flashing and never goes away. When I don't have the ethernet cord plugged in, the computer still blinks with the network disk, but eventually changes to an OS 9 question mark folder, where it blinks some more and finally boots up normally.
The ethernet cord is one from a router.

Open the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences, select your hard disk as the startup disk, and quit System Preferences.
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S20 Won't boot to windows with network cable connected

S20-4157, Windows 7 x64
Every time I reboot my machine, I have to unplug the network cable. I can plug it back in after I log in. If I don't, it gets stuck on the windows startup screen.
I think this is related to the lenovo power manager. I get the following event log error on boot:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
TPPWRIF
When I go to control panel, and start the power manager app, it does not start. Locked up with splash screen. I tried uninstalling the program as well, and cannot. Get an "unable to run on this system" message when I try to uninstall.

That's odd to say the least. DId this app come installed from the factory? I'm not sure why a thinkpad power manager utility would be included in our preloads. The fact that you're not able to uninstall it sort of concerns me. Have you tried uninstalling via safemode or when logged in as administrator?

Start up with external Drive connected and switched on

When starting up with my external USB2 drive connected, it takes ages, I usually resort to switching it off and then back on when my Mac has started. Has anyone got any tips on how to speed up the start up process?
Cheers

Sounds like it may well be the photos (or more likely any video in iphoto) rather than the drive that is causing the issues.
Have you installed all the updates for imovie including the ilife compatibility update.

648 max, wont boot to cd with locked HDD connected

hi i hope you can help me, i bought my son a cheap second hand PC from a car boot sale, inside which is an MSI 648 max motherboard,
the problem i have is i am trying to attach a larger hard drive which is locked, usually to unlock the HDD i run a bootable cd-rom which is fine however when i try to boot the computer i get a message stating the hard drive is locked and i have 5 attempts to enter the password.
unfortunately i do not know the password as it is encrypted on the cd-rom, if only i could boot to cd-rom this wouldn't be a problem however i can not boot to cd-rom with the locked hard drive connected and obviously i cannot connect the hard drive after its booted to cd as it will not be detected,
when i try to access the boot menu i hit F11 as stated but all i get on the POST screen is "GO-->boot menu and then it hangs on the POST screen, what does this mean?
so my question is, is it possible to boot to CD with the locked HDD connected as im getting quite frustrated,
i hope i have given enough information but if you need anymore i shall happily provide
many thanks
Glenn

If the hard drive is still servicable you can use a bootable cd or floppy to erase the contents of the hard drive.
The ultimate boot cd has numerous apps to erase hdds. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Or just get another hard drive.
Could be something else wrong of course. At least the UBCD is free.

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