[G4] RE G4 Shutdown woes

[Peter Webster]

Dear BG: the problem was solved – when I booted the second time, the Mac had
figured it out and found the chosen start up disk.

Thank you for your wise input.

PMW

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:31 PM, B G <briang113 at pacbell.net> wrote:

> The question mark means it is looking for a system to boot.
>
> Sometimes on the reset you will lose your chosen start up disk.
>
> Go to system preferences/ Startup disk  and reselect the boot volume.
>
> That should solve the problem.
>
> BG
>
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Peter Webster wrote:
>
>  Esteemed List Members:
>>
>> Thank you all for your specific and ameliorating posts.
>>
>> I chose to repair permissions, again, and avail myself of the Open
>> Firmware resets.
>>
>> When the Sawtooth booted up, I got the blinking question mark/folder icon.
>>
>> I shut down, had a sandwich, rebooted, same thing, blinking question
>> mark/folder icon, then the Apple logo glowed and I was back in business.
>>
>> I repaired permissions, again, did some work, and then shut down:
>>
>>
>> The shut down proceeded normally, so far so good.
>>
>> Thank you all!
>>
>> Because of this list we are able to maintain all of our good old stuff,
>> not the latest, but the greatest.
>>
>> PMW
>>
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