On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 15:47 +0100, Richard Bensley wrote:
unrewarding experience because dual-boot works for almost nobody
Also pretty unstable via tools like bootcamp which, although I only booted into windows once, quickly caused an "invalid symlink" on my drive in my iMac. PANIC>PANIC>BACKUP>REINSTALL
Oh that, I had that well before bootcamp came out. Seen it a few times now, I think it can randomly happen after OSX has checked it's disk and tried to repair something.
A re-installation is the long winded way of fixing it though. You can generally just boot into single user mode, find the offending simlink (which it normally reports as it boots in single user mode) and delete it and recreate pointing to the right place.
Of course finding the "right place" on OSX can be "fun" sometimes. Although think the first time I fixed it on a machine was about the second time I had touched OSX so it couldn't have been that difficult :-)