OS 10.4 - Problems with booting up

Beatster · Beatster #1 (**permalink**)

09-18-2007, 03:57 PM

Recently I get a picture of the world and then a file with a question mark in it upon restart or boot up and it is taking more and more time to start up. Have I deleted a file that can be bypassed but takes the OS time to realise it can be or does anyone have any advice? My software spec is;

System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218)
Kernel Version: Darwin 8.10.0

It began to happen after I deleted Norton program files from the iMac. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

MacsWork · MacsWork #2 (**permalink**)

09-19-2007, 07:35 PM

Try booting holding down the X key while booting. This will force the Mac to boot to OS X if there is a bootable OS X partition found on a SATA, PATA, USB or FW bus. The spinning globe icon refers to network booting and/or imaging. If you were to boot holding the N key down you would boot to the default NetBoot image providing there was an OS X server running NetBoot services.

You could also try holding down the OPTION key while booting. This will list all bootable partitions with icons that represent the OS version and boot partition name.

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Beatster #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 06, 2007 Location: Belfast Posts: 7 Mac Specs: 1.9Ghz iMAC G5 with isight, 1.5Gb ram, 320GB ext. hdd, EyeTV	09-18-2007, 03:57 PM Recently I get a picture of the world and then a file with a question mark in it upon restart or boot up and it is taking more and more time to start up. Have I deleted a file that can be bypassed but takes the OS time to realise it can be or does anyone have any advice? My software spec is; System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) Kernel Version: Darwin 8.10.0 It began to happen after I deleted Norton program files from the iMac. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers
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MacsWork #2 (permalink)
Member Since: May 22, 2005 Location: Closer than you think. Posts: 2,074 Mac Specs: Performa 6116 2GBSCSI 8MB OS 7.5.3	09-19-2007, 07:35 PM Try booting holding down the X key while booting. This will force the Mac to boot to OS X if there is a bootable OS X partition found on a SATA, PATA, USB or FW bus. The spinning globe icon refers to network booting and/or imaging. If you were to boot holding the N key down you would boot to the default NetBoot image providing there was an OS X server running NetBoot services. You could also try holding down the OPTION key while booting. This will list all bootable partitions with icons that represent the OS version and boot partition name.
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