world icon on boot
i know it's bad when the mod here has questions, but here goes.
a guy brings in his laptop today and it won't boot. some weird combination of stuff he did that i won't go into now.
when he starts it up now, he gets a flashing world icon (i assume it's looking for a network boot drive) then kicks to the OS9 boot folder, with the flashing icon.
i can connect to his machine just fine via target disk mode. i installed OS9 on his machine to no avail, it still boot. i can see his files etc, and can pull things off.
the OS9 cd won't boot in the machine, and i don't have an OSX cd on hand.
when i hold down the option key, it shows up as having no drives available.
anyone else run into this before?
-alcimedes
edit: while writing this i found a 10.1.5 cd and it is booting off of that. just in case it happens again though, anyone else ever run into this, and if so, how did you fix it?
a guy brings in his laptop today and it won't boot. some weird combination of stuff he did that i won't go into now.
when he starts it up now, he gets a flashing world icon (i assume it's looking for a network boot drive) then kicks to the OS9 boot folder, with the flashing icon.
i can connect to his machine just fine via target disk mode. i installed OS9 on his machine to no avail, it still boot. i can see his files etc, and can pull things off.
the OS9 cd won't boot in the machine, and i don't have an OSX cd on hand.
when i hold down the option key, it shows up as having no drives available.
anyone else run into this before?
-alcimedes
edit: while writing this i found a 10.1.5 cd and it is booting off of that. just in case it happens again though, anyone else ever run into this, and if so, how did you fix it?
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you fix it just as u did. I think this is the option to go.
Try booting from the Hardware Test CD and running the extended test...mine found a fault on the logic board test.