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<blockquote data-quote="bys" data-source="post: 1332227" data-attributes="member: 225540">Hi guys, OK so I've searched around, looked at the console output, uninstalled software, booted into verbose, user mode, repaired the disk with everything under the sun (booting from external OS X and running disk warrior like a billion times).. and yet I still have a very specific problem.While its no way detrimental to the operation of my macbook its setting off my OCD on my otherwise perfect running OS X / WIN 7 MBP (unibody, late 2008).OK So basically - my macbook always hangs on restart. BUT if I then hold down the power button - turning it off and then starting again - its fine!&nbsp; In other words, hard or cold boots are fine.Also when I &quot;alt&quot; boot - that is I manually choose the start up disk, its fine also! So maybe there some error with choosing the startup disk (even though I went back and selected it multiple times).I am basically calling it quits on trying to fix it (save nuking the HDD and installing again) - the work around is - boot into the start up disk option screen by default (the one when you hold alt after boot) - is there anyway to set this as the default behavior?Cheers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bys, post: 1332227, member: 225540"] Hi guys, OK so I've searched around, looked at the console output, uninstalled software, booted into verbose, user mode, repaired the disk with everything under the sun (booting from external OS X and running disk warrior like a billion times).. and yet I still have a very specific problem. While its no way detrimental to the operation of my macbook its setting off my OCD on my otherwise perfect running OS X / WIN 7 MBP (unibody, late 2008). OK So basically - [U]my macbook always hangs on restart[/U]. BUT if I then hold down the power button - turning it off and then starting again - its fine! In other words, [U]hard or cold boots are fine.[/U] Also when I "alt" boot - that is I manually choose the start up disk, its fine also! So maybe there some error with choosing the startup disk (even though I went back and selected it multiple times). I am basically calling it quits on trying to fix it (save nuking the HDD and installing again) - the work around is - boot into the start up disk option screen by default (the one when you hold alt after boot) - [U]is there anyway to set this as the default behavior?[/U] Cheers. [/QUOTE]

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