[Tarcat]

When I turn on my 533 Dual, it goes stratight to a black screen that says :/root#. Whats wrong and how the heck do I get it to boot?

[reader50]

Sounds like you are booting into single-user mode. Normally, you get there by holding down apple-s during bootup. But you also get there if your OS install is damaged and it can't do the later bootup stages.

Try a disk repair, a permissions repair, or an OS archive reinstall. In that order. The first two are painless, the OS reinstall will no doubt mess up a few things, requiring preferences to be reset and perhaps some applications to be reinstalled.