What the world needs now...

I tried booting my PowerBook G4 today, and I was greeted with a nice blinking globe icon. I had never seen this before, but it turned out to be similar to the blinking folder with a question mark I'd seen on earlier Macs. The cause: the computer was confused as to where its operating system and/or NetBoot server was located. Kinda made sense, as I'd just told it to boot from an external drive with my most-recent backup on it. Well, apparently, it didn't like that backup (good to know, in case of emergency!).

So, I followed the instructions at Apple's support site, and ran the Disk Utility to repair my startup disk. It didn't really find anything wrong with it, which is good. I restarted the Mac, and saw the blinking globe once more...then, the blinking folder with a question mark...then, the grey Apple OS X boot screen. Whew! Glad to know things like this are easily fixed.

Now, it's time for another backup (that works, this time)!