Comments on: “Building boot caches” error when changing startup disk

By: Piers Goodhew

Piers Goodhew — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:28:18 +0000

Yep, worked here too. Does not appear to mean anything at all is happening to/with any boot caches.

By: hipwr

hipwr — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:41:10 +0000

Dude, you rock! After creating a restore image and saving it to a Firewire drive, I wiped my XServe drives and created a software RAID. After “restoring” the image back to the XServe and attempting to boot off the XServe’s internal drives, I received the above error message also. I copied and pasted the file contents you suggested into TextWrangler and created the file. When into Startup Disk and selected the XServes internal RAID, and presto, no more error message.
Thank You.

By: Hjalti á Lava

Hjalti á Lava — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:24:40 +0000

I got this error upgrading from 10.4.11 and using the transfer option as well. Thanks it worked like a charm…

By: jashley

jashley — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:17:42 +0000

Thanks! I just upgraded from a 10.4.11 server to 10.6 server and used the Transfer server data option… the old server did not have the com.apple.Boot.plist file either. Must not have been needed in 10.4.11

Your fix worked great for me!

By: Haravikk

Haravikk — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:31:20 +0000

Many thanks for this! No idea how I managed to nuke that file, or even why OS X couldn’t just re-create the file itself. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that I tried to install Windows 7 onto an external drive. Which by the way is still a bloody pain to do (I failed); modern technology my ass, I’ve managed to install OS X onto practically anything with writable memory since v10.0!