Found an Interesting Problem...

[clion]

Hi!

I recently installed Leopard on my G4 MDD 1.2 Ghz desktop. The machine booted fine after installation, so I proceeded to do the software update. It's when I restarted the machine, I found this interesting problem...

Upon reboot, there was this flashing graphic on the screen. It's a picture of the world. Yes, you heard me right: A flashing full-color graphic of the world. The system does not boot into OSX, however.

Thinking that this could indicate that (maybe) my Mac was trying to boot off a network, I restarted and held down the "Option" key. That led me the familiar menu where you select you boot drive(s). I selected my start up disk -- the only bootable drive I have on this system -- and I still got to the flashing world.

I put the machine in firewire mode and re-installed Leopard from my Macbook Pro. (I could not get the Superdrive to open.) This time I did a complete disk erase and re-install. I restarted the machine without doing a software update, however, I still find I'm running into this flashing graphic of the world.

I can't recall if anyone knows what this means on any of the boards I've viewed.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks!

 

[applefan1997]

Have you tried letting it run it's course? Some Macs, if no net drive is found, continue booting off the drive.

 

[mkrishnan]

The flashing globe is a netboot icon -- the icon that shows up preliminarily if no drive is up and available is the folder with a question mark, AFAIK.

Take a look at this and see if it helps:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=990

 

[techound1]

It's trying to load the kernel from the netboot server. It should resolve into either the spinning gear or the prohibit symbol.