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OS X won't boot...line with circle around Apple logo
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Brookfield, CT, USA
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I have a G4 that has Jaguar installed. It won't boot. The Apple logo appears and then a circle with a line through it appears over the Apple logo.
This has happened twice and the first time I reinstalled the OS.
What could be causing this?
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: UK
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Originally posted by scip:
I have a G4 that has Jaguar installed. It won't boot. The Apple logo appears and then a circle with a line through it appears over the Apple logo.
This has happened twice and the first time I reinstalled the OS.
What could be causing this?
Several things may be wrong.
The icon you see means "Cannot find startup disk"
Either you have the starup disk setting corrupted/wrong or the system folder is messed up or the hard drive is messed up or...
I'd make some checkup on the hard drive [using installer disk]
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Brookfield, CT, USA
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Originally posted by scip:
I have a G4 that has Jaguar installed. It won't boot. The Apple logo appears and then a circle with a line through it appears over the Apple logo.
This has happened twice and the first time I reinstalled the OS.
What could be causing this?
The user of the machine moved some critical OS X files (mach, mach.sym, mach_kernel, etc) to another folder while in OS 9.
It's ok though, it was a nice billable support call.
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