[jfcgirard]

Hi,

Recently my mini has been freezing (constantly) on the white apple logo startup screen... The rotating symbol never appears...

I can circumvent this by holding down the option-key and choosing the hard drive at startup. It also starts ok on the 'safe boot'. I don't have any 'startup items'. I've checked that my HD is correctly set as the startup disk. I have recently hooked up a firewire LaCie external HD...

Any ideas or hints as to what is going on and what to do about it?

TIA to all!

[roller]

Does it work when the Lacie is not connected?

[jfcgirard]

I've been meaning to try that but forgot...
Let's say that everything starts up ok with the LaCie disconnected, where should I go from there?

[chipchen]

The I would reformat the LaCie and see if that solves anything.

You might need to do an archive and install. The weird thing is... by the time it reaches the Apple, the system has already chosen a start up volume. But you say you can get it to start by going selecting the volume in multi-boot mode. So that is odd.

It's most likely a corruption in the system file that selects start disks, etc... but troubleshooting that would not be worth the time. I would do an archive and install.