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Hi,

 

Can someone answer me this quick question.

 

I have UseKernalCache=Yes in cham.plist to speed up the boot process.

 

I just had a lock up and had to hard-reset. On trying to reboot it KP, something about zfscompression kext I think, or something like that.

 

So I tried booting up with -x, same thing, then I tried -f and it booted (long winded version). Then when I rebooted without -f, it worked as normal.

 

So does this sound like a corrupt kernelcache? Does using -f force a rebuild of the kernel cache?

 

Answers appreciated. Thanks

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As far as I know, -f just bypasses the cache?

 

Here's how to rebuild the cache on Lion, I suppose it's the same on Mountain Lion:

 

Trash the folder /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup

 

Then rebuild the caches from Terminal like this:

 

kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel

kextcache -system-caches

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