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IBook won't boot - OS problem???
Name: Steve Date: April 7, 2002 at 09:06:35 Pacific
Comment:
I've got a friend with an IBook running MacOs 9. When he switched on the notebook this morning, nothing happened:
When the machine attempts to boot, a flashing icon appears with a question mark & a folder. Doesn't look to be a hardware problem - is there anything we can do to get access to the OS?
No new programs have been installed and nothing has changed since last night as far as we can tell.
Knowing nothing about Macs, I haven't a clue how to troubleshoot this. Is there any way we can bypass the normal mode into something like Windows' "Safe Mode"?
Name: the pickle Date: April 7, 2002 at 10:51:15 Pacific
Reply:
Grab the CD that came with the iBook, boot from it, and go to the Startup Disk control panel.
Set the Startup Disk to be the hard drive.
Restart.
That should fix it.
p
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Response Number 2
Name: Xerov Date: July 3, 2002 at 18:04:19 Pacific
Reply:
My iBook seems to do this also, it has happend 2 times already and i havent owned it but 3 weeks! i dont even mess with the bootloader in Systemprefs! Please e-Mail Solution
PS: I lost my OS X cd!
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Response Number 3
Name: justin Date: July 7, 2002 at 11:43:29 Pacific
Reply:
what type of iBook is it?
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Response Number 4
Name: the pickle Date: July 7, 2002 at 11:47:47 Pacific
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