OSX Boot up Issue (0 w/ strike through) 1

[brettums]

I'm new to OS X (client) so please bear w/ me. I boot up the Powerbook and You see the Apple logo and it immediatly goes to a 0 with a line through it. First of all what doe sit mean, and secondly, How can I resolve it. I've done the following:

- Zapped PRAM (Apple+Option+P+R did nothing...
- Used Diskwarrior (latest version) did nothing...
- Norton Utilities (latest version) did nothing...

I'm stumped.... any other suggestions, or should I just rebuilding the machine? Note: when I booy up from a CD, I can see the drive and all it's content, I do not know how to tell if the system folder is blessed in OS X, could this been the issue? Please advise.

thanks
-Brett
brett@fayschool.org

 

[fidsak]

You may end up rebuilding it, but first try these suggestions from Apple:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464

 

[btalon]

Did you try booting to the OSX disk and using first aid? There's a utility called repair permissions. I've run into the same problem during boot up and this solved it.