Re: Installed the OS, but the system refuses to boot

[Jim Arnott]

Make sure that the jumper is on Master, not Slave or Cable Select.
Jim
On Sunday, Aug 1, 2004, at 16:43 America/Vancouver, Peter Jay Salzman 
wrote:

The screen, upon reboot, displayed an icon of a folder with a blinking
icon that alternated between a "?" and a graphic that looked like a 
face
(a square, two eyes and a "lightning bolt" that looked like a nose").

I'm assuming that this is MacOS's way of saying:
   I can't find a boot device.
I put the OS installation disk back into the computer.  My little test
file was still on the drive, so I know the drive is working.  I
reinstalled the OS for the heck of it and rebooted.
Nothing.  I still got the flashing "?" with the imac "face".
I'm at a complete loss here.  If this were one of my Linux boxes, I
would say that the master boot record isn't pointing to a bootable
partition.
Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the 
sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it 
can be calculated in advance, and it becomes part of the ceremony. 
-Kafka

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