I changed my mobo(Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3) mainly because of problems with the USBs. That problem stayed, and also my boot time was the same. However, I did a new test install on another volume with the same distro from Lawless, and this new install boots in about 20 seconds!!! Waiting to see what the solution from Lawless is, cause I don't want to do new primary installation.

My boot time varies drastically. Sometimes, it only about 15 seconds, and things start right on up. Other times it stops at InterfaceNamer: timed out waiting for IOKIT to quiesce and it takes around 5 minutes. I'm running Leo4All v2 updated to 10.5.5

what I found, is that using the AppleATIATA instead of AppleVIAATA did not actually solve the problem with the iokitwait. But deleting the AppleonboardPCATA.kext did! So even my primary install now boots in about 15-20 seconds. So if you have the iokitwait and have the AppleonboardPCATA.kext, delete it and use AppleATIATA. Now everything is perfect(SATA in AHCI). PATA drives also recognized and mounted.

Cheers.

not quite on topic but i posted this over at insanely in response to a question.

somethings i know that will effect the installation of this release and others. Alot of it comes down to your hardware. Slave and master drive configs can make a huge difference. If it wont boot (install or os) with dvd as slave then try master. Bios settings have a dramatic effect on everything. The best process if you have problems is disable everything you can in the bios eg firewire on board sound etc. Then just do an install with your chipset kext. Then once you have a booting system start to add all other kexts. I am shortly going to write a bit of a guide about everything i have found about problems with bios etc. 1 thing i have found is that depending on what your bios settings are will cause the create account loop. This goes for the majority of distros not just mine.

im booting up my acer aspire one a150x with 10.5.4 in about 25secs,
a little bit slow but i can life with it :)

My Acer Aspire 5104Wlmi, boots up in 1 minute and 10 seconds.
It has an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 processor, and is running iAtkos v4a updated to 10.5.5 by using Zephyroths AMD Software Update.

I have tried removing a lot of kexts(including all the ATA kexts, firewire & sata kexts), and just use the AppleATIATA kext found earlier in this thread, but still don´t see no real difference in boot-time.
I always get the "IOKitWaitQuiet() timed out waiting to write kernel symbols error", no matter what...
I have almost no BIOS options om my machine.

Ztardust ***

I'd figure this is my firs time posting =o
Thank you so much for posting this! I went from 1 minute 18 seconds (from pressing enter on darwin to when i see the dock and everything loaded) to a dramatic 33 seconds! lol and I want more!! just kiddin. and thanks for telling which one to get rid of Seawane :)

Before I head off I would love to say thank you ZEPH...this magnificant project came together safely. and im up to date as much as I can see around these forums.

Best Regards

My GA-MA78GM-S2H with LawlessPPC 10.5.4 boots about under 20 seconds (14 to be more precise - stopped that with my watch).

Maybe it's the fast CL4 memory or else, I dunno. I also erased the Extensions.mkext (the first thing I always do with a new Rig) and cleaned the final setup thoroughly with Onyx. Before I did that boot time for the OS was about 2 minutes.

Of course, boot time is from where the OS begins to load - with turning the machine on with a cold start it's total time is roughly 40 seconds (darn ACPI load time). ;)

I was wondering if there was a tip to shorten the blue screen? Cause that takes up most of the time needed to start

like 20 seconds total, takes alot longer now due to the kexts for my graphics card:-/