On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
Uh, not in that order. The Startup disk is stored in the PRAM. You need to Zap the PRAM and THEN set the startup disk.
Sometimes the startup disk re-selection is all that is needed so I thought I'd mention that first. I just fixed someone's that did not have one chosen and the Mac had to take the time to look for a boot disk and that caused the blinker.....
True. Although usually if it's just the Startup disk selection then the blinking question mark will clear in time. If you have a lot of possible drive locations (many SCSI busses for example) it takes longer. A server I work with has three SCSI busses, one or two are wide (15 SCSI IDs) so it takes 60-90 seconds to find the boot drive when the PRAM has been zapped. Some people aren't patient enough and reboot or what have you before it starts up.
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