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Oct 20, 2006, 01:29 AM
 
I have a problem with my iMac G5 (Panther OS). Couple of months ago I've installed a program to modify my OS's look. Everything worked fine until I've decided to uninstall the program (the application is Shapeshifter).

After I've uninstalled that application, at first by dragging its application icon in the garbage and afterwards I used a program (I don't recall the name) to uninstall it again.
The thing is that I have managed to uninstall the Shapeshifter application, but my iMac was not like it was once.

Now, every time I start the iMac, it starts, but it doesn't boot imediatelly, it shows in the midlle of the screen, two icons cliping, one at a time. The first icon is a round connection earth sign that is flashing and immediately after this the second icon appears and it flashes, this second icon looks like a folder with the Finder icon on it. Only that after that this 2 icons flash in front of my eyes for about 10 minutes every time I start my Mac, only than the computer starts.
After this, during operation, I have no errors of any kind.
My question is, how can repare this error, without reinstalling OSX?
I have used the disk utilites's permissions check and still no results. I don't know what to do.

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Oct 20, 2006, 11:42 AM
 
Globe = Trying to boot from a network
Finder icon + folder = can't find/looking for a boot volume.

Go to the startup disk preference pane and set your preferences.
     
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Oct 20, 2006, 02:52 PM
 
The reason why this happened is most likely due to the fact that you booted from a disk repair utility by making the repair disc the startup disc in System Preferences. Once the disc is no longer in the system, the default setting does not return to your hard drive. You have to go back and click on your drive in the Startup Disk preference pane as seanc said.

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Oct 23, 2006, 07:20 AM
 
Thank you very much guys, yes when I entered in System Preferences the Startup Disk utility it was set for network. I set it on the macintosh hdd.... and now my iMac works great.
     
   
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