<HTML><BODY class="ApplePlainTextBody" style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV class="AppleOriginalContents"><DIV>On 26 Feb 2006, at 23:48, John McGibney wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>On Feb 26, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote:</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I almost immediately get a blinking (or is it pulsating?) white square in the centre of the screen, about 2 x 2 cm (3/4" square for you non-metric types) with a blue world embedded in it.</DIV><DIV>After twenty seconds, it changes to what seems to be a small system folder, with a blinking question mark.</DIV><DIV>Another twenty seconds, and the start up proceeds as normal (light grey screen, grey apple, rotating line) and everything is OK.</DIV><DIV>The end-point is normal, but the route seems strange. I have run applejack and all known utilities.</DIV><DIV>Does anyone have any idea of the significance of these icons in the start-up procedure?</DIV><DIV>Anything I can do stop them?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Open System preferences and reselect your internal drive as the startup drive. It sounds like your machine is looking for a network drive to start from.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV>John - exactly correct...... Thanks. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>regards, Trevor</DIV></BODY></HTML>