Maybe it was trying to boot off of the phone???
Did you have your phone plugged in when you went to start it up. Maybe it was trying to boot off of the phone???
nah the computer was already on. i only restarted once that screen came up cos i had no other way to stop it
wireless issue, cant seem to find the list to remove the network
have you been sniffing something?
facepalm of the century, what next? booting from the MightyMouse?
Are you running 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard?
It's not a far stretch of the imagination for a computer to recognize an external USB device (such as a phone or flash drive) as a bootable disk. I'm not saying it'll actually load up an OS, but if the computer tried, you might get a funky looking screen like he posted up.
For example, when I plug my iPhone into my work's computer via USB to charge it, it recognizes it as a USB scanner, opens up the Command line prompt for some reason, it runs through some text, then crashes out the command prompt with an error message. So no, I don't believe my question was "too" far out there. Out there, yes......but not impossible.
Well for a start, PPC Macs can't boot off of USB drives anyway![]()
Didn't know that. I've only owned Intel-based Mac's (and even then, I'm not sure if those could boot off of USB devices). I was pretty much just throwing it out as the "farthest-out-there" scenerio......as those type of scenerios are ususally the ones that plague me.