Re: newbie

[Allan Hunter]

Shouldn't matter.  A Mac that can't find a bootable drive where it 
was expecting one will poll to see if it finds one elsewhere.  For 
example, if your System Folder is hosed and you attach a Zip drive 
with a bootable Zip cartridge and then power up your Mac, you'll 
normally see the beginnings of an attempted boot from the messed-up 
system, followed by a folder with the flashing question mark, 
followed after a moment or two by a smiling Mac and it then boots 
from the Zip.

A System Folder that's hosed in such a way that it crashes the Mac, 
or a drive that's screwed up on a hardware level, requires bypassing 
the normal bootup volume or drive, as in this case where the user was 
instructed to unplug the messed-up internal drive.  Normally this 
would cause the Mac to either sit dark for a moment or show the 
flashing questionmark folder, but then to switch to smiling Mac once 
it finds bootable media on the SCSI chain.


At 1:54 PM -0400 5/5/05, Chuck Underhill wrote:
Hi,
I think mopst likely the cause is that you didnt go into control panel
and switch your "startup disk". You might need to boot from floppy and
do that. :)

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