macOS Mojave unusual boot behavior

[awesumsauce]

Hi,

I have a 2017 retina MBP 15

I noticed an unusual behavior after upgrading to macOS Mojave. When I boot from shut down after opening the lid, the Apple logo and the loading bar loads halfway through with my wallpaper in the background, then the screen goes black with a pause for a few seconds and the apple logo re-appears and finishes up the load.

Is this normal?

I never noticed this in High Sierra. Anytime I booted up from shut down state by opening the lid, it booted seamlessly with my wallpaper in the background all the time with no pauses.



Thanks

 

[Fishrrman]

As long as the boot process completes and the computer runs normally, I wouldn't worry about this.

I've seen the same behavior myself, and I've also seen reports from others about this as well.

My guess (and it's ONLY "a guess") -- something to do with the way video drivers load up, reading of startup cache files, etc.

Perhaps Apple will address this in an update-yet-to-come.

But so long as everything works fine -afterwards-, again, I wouldn't get too worried about it...

 

[Dc2006ster]

I had a problem installing Mojave and when this blackout first occurred I was concerned. I went to an Apple store and did a restart on a couple of their display models all of which had this same behaviour.

Many people have noticed this behaviour and it seems that it is not a problem.