something weird happened when i started up my PBG4


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hi you know when u start it up u see the apple logo and a little loading circle below rite. well, when i turned it on just now i saw a very tiny smily face thing and a question mark b4 the apple logo showed up. it happened really fast but ive never seen it before. has this happened to anyone else? what does it mean? thnx

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The smiley face and blinking question mark at boot typically meant in older OS's that it was having trouble looking for a system file required for the bootup. Sometimes the OS would actually hang there and you had to put a system disk in when you booted. Nice though that you pay a couple grand for a laptop and it has boot issues right out of the box...Go Apple!!

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That's the OpenFirmware looking for a boot drive. I used to get it when I booted off my iPod and didn't switch it back when booting to Jaguar. It would look for the iPod first, then go to the secondary source which was the iBook HDD. Just make sure you've got the right boot drive set under System Preferences.

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Nice though that you pay a couple grand for a laptop and it has boot issues right out of the box...Go Apple!!

I don't see anywhere in his post that he stated that this happened right out of the box.

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That's the OpenFirmware looking for a boot drive. I used to get it when I booted off my iPod and didn't switch it back when booting to Jaguar. It would look for the iPod first, then go to the secondary source which was the iBook HDD. Just make sure you've got the right boot drive set under System Preferences.

ohHHHHHHH now i get it, i did something the the boot sequence b4 i tuned it off. thnx 4 the tip man :)

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Yeah, I had that happen on my eMac when I had booted a panther pre-release off my iPod, removed the iPod and rebooted into Jaguar off the main drive. Changing the boot disk setting fixes it has road warrior said.

@orestes: If you don't have anything constructive to say, don't say anything. :D

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Changing the boot disk setting fixes it has road warrior said.

Actually, it was timdorr that gave that suggestion (although I would have if he hadn't already said it).

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