Error at Startup on Macbook

Hi,

Ive had my macbook a good few months now and its been working excellent until i decided to have a go in boot camp!, bad idea! it was going all so fine until i tried to install windows xp, i couldn't use the keyboard as it was disabled. I found another way around it all as i couldn't actually get off that instal screen at start-up, i read a few forums and found it i held down the option key at startup i can choose a certain drive, i did this and i am now back to my MAC straight away when i got back on the Mac i removed pretty much everything for boot camp as i didn't want anything to do with it!!.

Now, when i startup my computer it comes up with a black-screen with a flashing 'underscore' (_) in the top left hand corner, the only way to run the mac in the right way is to revert back to the option key and choosing MAC OSX, if anybody can help me out here i will be extremely grateful!

Cheers Lads & Lasses

Jordan
Newcastle, UK

If you go to System Preferences> Startup Disk, is the one that says 'OS X 10.5 on **** HD' selected?

This is what i see...

Try selecting your HD and restarting.




It could just be looking for something else to boot from, if you see what I mean.

Skaheadpunk nails it, you have a non-existent net boot server selected! Usually the Mac will try to connect, fail and then default to your internal drive. But something is amiss. Highlight your hard drive. All of your problems will be solved... Maybe!

Lads you are just fantastic!

Everything seems to be back to normal

Thanks very much, Top Work!

If i have anymore problems i will get back to yous!


Cheers!!

Jordan_Safc said:

Lads you are just fantastic!

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*ahem* no lad over here! Lol. Glad it's working for ya, feel free to ask more questions, I'm on a roll today.

skaheadpunk on a roll, now I need to deal with breakfast!: