My system runs Mac OS X really well, however, I have one small niggling issue and that is my boot up times are somewhat long - around 2-3 minutes give or take. I suspect this could be due to the fact that NForce 5 boards don't always mix that well with OS X. Anyway, verbose boot (-v) tells me that AppleNForceATA is what's causing the delay in boot times as its constantly cycling looking for units (although it always finds 0), then eventually the system will get to the desktop. Does anyone else here experience similar issues or know of a solution? Also, let me know your average boot times from Darwin to the GUI.

Cheers,

R0GUE

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MacBook Pro 15" | Mac OS X 10.6 • 2 GHz Intel Core Duo • 2 GB DDR2-667 • ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 128 MB • 100 GB Serial-ATA
Hackintosh | Mac OS X 10.5.6 • 3 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ • MSI K9N AM2 • 2 GB DDR2-667 • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB • ALC888 Audio • 300 GB Serial-ATA
iPhone 3G • 8 GB

14 seconds. - Cheers!

34 seconds

Wow, now thats fast! Faster than my G5

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MacBook Pro 15" | Mac OS X 10.6 • 2 GHz Intel Core Duo • 2 GB DDR2-667 • ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 128 MB • 100 GB Serial-ATA
Hackintosh | Mac OS X 10.5.6 • 3 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ • MSI K9N AM2 • 2 GB DDR2-667 • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB • ALC888 Audio • 300 GB Serial-ATA
iPhone 3G • 8 GB

@WinLinMac, that's incredibly fast - congratulations if it's true!

I take it none of you guys get any AppleNForceATA issues then?

Thats the version I'm running.

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MacBook Pro 15" | Mac OS X 10.6 • 2 GHz Intel Core Duo • 2 GB DDR2-667 • ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 128 MB • 100 GB Serial-ATA
Hackintosh | Mac OS X 10.5.6 • 3 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ • MSI K9N AM2 • 2 GB DDR2-667 • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB • ALC888 Audio • 300 GB Serial-ATA
iPhone 3G • 8 GB

Yes, it seems like the problem is related to your AppleNForceATA, the initialization of my disks take a second!
This is what I see when booting up:

i have the same problem my boot up time is anywhere from 2 to 4 mins
and it is because of the AppleNforceATA
Have to wait for an update from MedEvil to improve this

1 minute )

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http://filebeam.com/ed1d2cc264d475f3...b57f7de191.jpg

It takes 7 seconds to load the O/S while the White screen appears before it goes into the actual desktop (14 seconds includes system BIOS appearing at startup). I do believe this is fast, however, as when install multiple applications the boot time can be as high as 40 seconds in some areas. 7 seconds is with default setup. - Cheers! =)