[G4] Error of type -127

[June Parlett]

on 2/25/03 10:32 PM, June Parlett at jparlett at gte.net wrote:

> After not being able to get the computer restarted, meaning that it hung up
> while loading the extensions, I finally got it to open with extensions off.
> Then I looked at the extensions, and turned one of them off, and restarted,
> then the same thing happened, then I started up with extension off, and
> while I was back in the extensions, I turned an extension back on. Then
> Something dire happened tonite while I was linking to a rather large website
> from a url link in an email to answer questions about being a computer
> graphic artist. Well, the site too a long time to load, and I am on a DSL
> line then when it came open, there was a security warning, twice, then it
> hung up, when I clicked on something else in my Harddrive to check to see
> how much Harddrive space I had left, which was 865mb. Then when I went to
> shut down from the Special Menu, I got this icky message: The start up disk
> no longer has a valid system folder. System and Finder must be in the System
> Folder. If you continue you may not be able to restart the computer. NOT be
> Able To Restart The Computer! What is this. I did not mess with the system
> folder. I turned off a
The Message reads now, when I try to open up the Harddrive, "The Macintosh
HD could not be opened because of an error of type-127

I did turn off a start up item, one of those annoying registrations items,
and it wouldn't restart, so I restarted it with extensions off. Was this
what caused the problem? June