Starting up the computer, picture of hardrive??

out of the past 5 times ive started up my computer, twice it hasn't gone to the picture of an apple, but to a picture of a harddrive, and then I have to click the little icon under it, and then it will go to the apple. this has never happened to me before and i've been using osx on various machines since it came out. what's up?

Not sure. I have an iMac G5 and for a while it did the same thing. It never hung. It always went ahead and booted but for a second or two it would look for the boot disk. It ended up working itself out. But you might try going to System Preferences->Startup Disk and selecting your OSX volume each time you've finally booted. Worked for me.

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