Macbook Pro Retina 15" flashing image/icon of world on screen at startup

My Macbook Pro (retina 15"), flashed an image/icon of the world when started up, and it had to be restarted before starting up properly. What's the reason for this? Is this an issue?

Search on globe at startup.
When I did up came some answers from way back in 2006.
It said to go to preferences startup & select the start up.  I tried that & then restarted & while it seemed to take awhile then the rest has been faster.
It was saying something about losing where to find the start up so it was hunting until it found it.  Something like that.
I'm on a 2012 13" MacBookPro running Mavericks.
Before this I had noticed it flashing back & forth between a gray screen & Mavericks screen on boot up (I was back & forth while booting & came back to see that. knew it wasn't good so shut down. Waited a few & then started up. It worked.)
It was funny since I had been wanting to go to Apple store & had talked about going w sister in law. That morning they said they were going in because hers wasn't working at all. So then I booted up & had that happen.
So I called & made a Genius bar appt. They checked & didn't find anything, but I had been getting the globe on bootup which kind of concerned me. Also its been rather slow booting & shutting down.

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