[P1] Startup ?

[david]

On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 08:47  PM, Thomas Bridgeland wrote:

> I recently installed OS X.2 the ran the download to X.2.4 on my 600 
> iceBook.
>
> Now on startup I get a flashing icon of the world in an inch square 
> box. After that goes on for a few minutes, it switches to an icon of a 
> folder flashing alternately a question mark and and the old smily face 
> mac. Finally it manages to boot into OS X. But it is a long, slow 
> process. Any suggestions as to why this might be happening? I don't 
> have OS 9 installed, but have two partitions, one for X and one with 
> files in it (I had planned to install 9 there but don't have the right 
> install CD)
>
Sounds like the system starts up expecting to find a system that it 
can’t find and eventually defaults to the one it does find. Go to the 
System Preferences menu and select Startup Disk. Select your OS X 
startup disk and lock the preference. That *should* do it.

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David