Normally, a mounted volume should be aliased in the (invisible)
"Volumes" folder and deleted when power is switched off or the volume
is dismounted.
I bought now a new Mini, but then: Surprise. The alias files are not
deleted anymore. The boot volume alias stay as an alias there, and all
other volume aliases are changed to folders with access rights --x--x--
x. Result: the machine refuses booting. I have to start it in firewire
modus and manually delete the respective items.
Note 1: This works so far without any problem on all my 3 other
computers (1 Titanium, 1 PPC Mini, 1 Macbook Pro 10 month old)
Note 2: I have usually between 4 (min) to 14 (max) volumes mounted.
Note 3: I have several partitions on a firewire drive, some of them
containing different OS ranging from OS 9 to Snow Leo.
Note 4: All machines are running with OS 10.5.8 (I do not like the OS
10.6.2, with which my newer 2 machines had been delivered)
Note 5: I have set up 10.5.8 again and again (with no third party
software installed), the problem stayed. I have also started from the
external firewire hard drive, then from Macbook in firewire mode, same
result.
Is the new Mini too fast shutting down and therefore not able to
delete the aliases correctly or what else could be the problem????
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