Boot up problems - Sawtooth G4 - circle with line through it

Hi,
I have had Leopard working for a month+ on our Sawtooth G4 PowerMac. My son was using the machine a little while ago and did a normal shutdown. I just restarted it and after the white screen with the grey apple logo (with the spinning clock-like bars icon below it), the Apple Logo now becomes a circle with a diagonal line through it.
Any idea what the issue is ?
thank you
'mark

The circle/slash indicates it cannot find a viable OS. You may need to reinstall Leo on the machine. Using archive and Instal may be sufficient.
Note: Of course, many will let you know that Leo is not supported on a Sawtooth, but that is not the issue here. "Support" and "Installing" are two different things. If you used target mode, as I suspect you did, will work to A&I as well. If you have a backup, then just clone it over.

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