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Speed up your 10.3.2 Boot Time

wow. 😀 sounds good, even though i try to re-boot as little as possible, but this should make re-booting a little bit more bearable. 😛

btw, Wes, do you have the link for that original macosx.com thread that you talk about in your first post?
 
Originally posted by dornball
the terminal stuff. it worked great.
though i confess, that i don't know how to "undo" it. which it seems like i will need to know how to undo it in order to move on to 10.3.3.

-dornball
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You can just remove the symbolic link:

sudo rm /usr/sbin/BootCacheControl
 
Re: Speed up your 10.3.2 Boot Time

Originally posted by Wes
This macosx.com thread lays out how it works and what to do.
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Which thread exactly? I don't wanna mess with my system and not be able to install future updates...
 
Just save yourself the time and effort and use the program instead of delving into the terminal. That way you don't screw anything AND you can easily reverse it when necessary.
 
Wow, now 10.3.2 actually boots up faster than 10.3.1 did. The circle went from spinning 22 times under 10.2.7 Jaguar to 16 times under 10.3.1 to 28 times under 10.3.2 to 12 times after that fix. I am definitely happy about that, it was a nagging issue that bugged me about the 10.3.2 update that bootup and system cache speed both seemed slower by a lot.
 
Thanks...went from over a minute (black screen to desktop-showing) to about 35 seconds--see my sig for my computer specs.
 
Originally posted by cb911
wow. 😀 sounds good, even though i try to re-boot as little as possible, but this should make re-booting a little bit more bearable.
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I find the problem these days with rebooting isn't the amount of time it takes the computer to restart, but having to close all my applications and lose the (often quite specific) context I had in each of them.

So I think we have to be a little less tolerant of it. In the GNU/Linux community where I stayed for about a year, the idea of a reboot was indicative of weak design or poor development, and viewed with disdain. As a result, it's much more robust in that particular area.
 
Originally posted by encro
Note that there should be a space inserted right before /usr/sbin/BootCacheControl

so it should look like this (one line):
Code: 
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Extensions/BootCache.kext/Contents/Resources/BootCacheControl /usr/sbin/BootCacheControl
[Press Return]
Enter Password at request.
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This one did miracles for my G4.
Thanx, good job!
All over performance seems to benefit from it. 🙂
 
just to clarify...

what the command is doing is to create an link to:

/System/Library/Extensions/BootCache.kext/Contents/Resources/BootCacheControl

from:

/usr/sbin/BootCacheControl

my understanding is that on boot up, the system looks for

/usr/sbin/BootCacheControl

but the intended file is

/System/Library/Extensions/BootCache.kext/Contents/Resources/BootCacheControl

the bootup takes longer because the system can't find the file it wants.

so by creating the link, you can speed up this process.

sudo is required because it's an admin level operation.

ln -s creates symbolic link.

to "undo," simply erase the symbolic link,
/usr/sbin/BootCacheControl

as someone had posted.

no harm done to the system file it is linked to...
 
yeah it makes my boot up faster. not superfast but noticibly faster.

im starting to like the terminal.
 
jxyama

jxyama

Hey thanks a lot for the explanation. I am new to Macs and OSX, so excuse the nOOb question.

I found the terminal and followed the procedures to add that command. I rebooted a couple of times and it is simply an amazing difference.....but here is my question.

Exactly how do I delete the change???? I navigated all the way to the BootCacheControl, but I don't see the change in there. Thanks in advance.
 
Well, I didn't really notice it load any faster, but when I rebooted last night and the OS came back up, the uptime in menubar program said 32 seconds...so wow, that must be good. 🙂
 
Just Entered fix in terminal and wit worked great but to revert back should it be:sudo rm -f /usr/sbin/BootCacheControl

or:sudo rm /usr/sbin/BootCacheControl


Thanks
 
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