The symbol is a universal symbol for "No" in this case, it's telling you it can't boot.
It sounds like you may need to either take it in to a repair shop or try to reinstall the OS. Some tools such as diskwarrior can usually get a system to boot if it's not. Also you can try booting into safe mode by holding down the shift key while the computer is starting, until it has fully started. If this works, then it means that there is some piece of software that is causing a problem with the OS (probably a third party software). The easiest thing for you is probably just to reinstall the os, but just make sure you don't delete your data. If this doesn't work, it is very likely a third party piece of software that is still residing on your computer. Mike --- David de la Hunty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks. > > What does it mean when booting up aborts with this > on it? > > booting goes: 1. white screen with grey apple, > whirling spoke symbol, > then after half a minute this grey "ghostbusters" > type symbol, and the > whirling spokes continue forever. I can start up in > "safe" mode though. > > What does it mean? > > What do I do to fix it? Have done disc check and > permissions repair. > > hardware: g4 ibook, Tigger.3 > > Thanks for any help! > > David > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
