[Ti] Fwd: [Ti] Al-book start-up speed (v Windows XP)

[Michael Bigley]

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>/System/Library/Extensions/BootCache.kext is the location of the 
>kernel extension implementing the cache while 
>Contents/Resources/BootCacheControl within that directory is the 
>user-level control utility (it lets you load the playlist, among 
>other things). The effectiveness of BootCache can be gauged from the 
>following: in a recent update to "Panther", a reference to 
>BootCacheControl was broken. BootCache is started (via the control 
>utility) in /etc/rc, and a prefetch tag is inserted (unless the 
>system is booting in safe mode). /etc/rc looks forBootCacheControl 
>in the "kext" directory, as well as in /usr/sbin, and finds it in 
>the former (it doesn't exist in the latter). However, another 
>program (possibly loginwindow.app) 
>accesses/usr/sbin/BootCacheControl directly, and does not find it. 
>For what it's worth, makingBootCacheControl available in /usr/sbin, 
>say via a symlink, reduces the boot time (measured from clicking on 
>the "Restart" confirmation button to the point where absolutely 
>everything has shown up on the system menu) from 135 seconds to 60 
>seconds on one of my machines!
>
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Here is a shorter version of the fix from another list:

Do you have 10.3.2 installed?  If you do run this command, restart 
twice and it should be much faster:

sudo cp -p 
/System/Library/Extensions/BootCache.kext/Contents/Resources/
BootCacheControl  /usr/sbin/

Haven't tried this myself though.
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