Flashing 'World Icon'???

I turned on my iBook and all that came on was a flashing world icon. What does that mean??

Its trying to boot from a network nothing realy to worry about

Ok thanks a lot. I was worried there for a second. My powerpoint, due today was on there. I made sure to back that up once it started back up again Again, thanks!

After your system is up and running. Bring up the System Preferences window (under the Apple menu). Click on Startup Disk.Then click on your Mac OS X folder. You can quit System Preferences now. This ensures that your system will boot from your OS X system disk and not the network.

Thanks. That is the first time that has ever happened to me. I doubt I ever changed the setting hmm.

yea dont worry about it my powerbook has done it before as well when ive changed nothing

rman said:

After your system is up and running. Bring up the System Preferences window (under the Apple menu). Click on Startup Disk.Then click on your Mac OS X folder. You can quit System Preferences now. This ensures that your system will boot from your OS X system disk and not the network.

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Can someone help me, I was asked to fix an imac, it would not work at all, I would reckon I was good with pc's but Mac is a mystery.. I have mac working, I have installed os9 and it work fine, problem is it takes 5 minutes to boot, I upgraded firmware and now I get the world for 5 mins before it loads, on reading forum I guess its looking for a network first, the above quote suggests where i can find settings but I can not find system pref window under the apple at the top left, could it be called something else ? or how else can I get into "click on start up" or can anyone tell me another way of stopping the mac looking for a network.