do you actively use Firewire? booting with <b>-s</b> and <b>rm</b>'ing (removing) the Firewire kexts, then <b>reboot</b> to <b>-f</b> for a forced reloading of all kexts so it recognizes the missing ones... IMO if you don't use a kext, why let your system search... get rid of it (of course you should always make a backup so you can copy it back if you've made a mistake).

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