Pb booting Leopard (clean install)

Hi,
I've just installed (clean install) Leopard on my PBG4 867Mhz. Everything's fine but the booting issue:
When booting or rebooting, i have a grey background with a blue earth button twingling for around 2 mn. Then a MacOS file (two bleu faces) twingled with a dot mark, as if i was searching for a drive/system to boot on. Another 2 mn. Then it boots as usual.
Where's the pb ?
I don't have any Application Enhancer installed (just growl and flip4mac)
Thanks in advance.

Open the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences and set your hard disk as the startup disk.
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