Slow Boot after using cpus=1
After installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 (iDeneb) on my machine (spec below) everything worked just fine except I often used to get sytem restart while booting, after the chameleon loader screen. I saw in this forum and modified the boot.plist by…
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- @hackmac Published 2010-07-17
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- OSx86 Core & 10.X
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After installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 (iDeneb) on my machine (spec below) everything worked just fine except I often used to get sytem restart while booting, after the chameleon loader screen. I saw in this forum and modified the boot.plist by adding cpus=1 flag in it. Now everything works fine and I don't get those restarts again but now Mac os x takes longer time to boot than it was before. Is it due to the cpus=1 flag I added ? What exactly does this cpus=1 means ?
System Spec.
GA-G31M-ES2L(Mobo)
Intel PentiumD 820 (CPU)
2GB 667MHz DDR2 (Transcend)
Seagate Baracuda 250GB SATA
RTL 8139C PCI Ethernet Card
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The boot flag cpus=1 tells os x to use only one of your cores and I believe the boot time may slow down a bit, to cut additional time off the boot time, try to remove applehwsensor.kext that should speed up the boot 10-20 seconds.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @hackmac | Primary Author | 1 | 2010-07-17 |
| @scififan68 | Contributor | 1 | 2010-07-18 |