White circle with diagonal line on start-up  where the black Apple was

Started up an A1138 powerbook. It showed the black Apple, then the revolving little hairy wheel for quite a while, then replaced the black Apple with this circle and now just sits there. Any ideas? Thanks

Thank you. This is a very interesting article, but I think I am in deeper trouble than I was before. I reset PRAM/NVRAM, held X during startup and ended up with a blue blank screen after a few seconds. I next reset the PMU, as per the article, with the same result - blue screen. I next tried to start up from my Leopard DVD; the optical drive did a little spinning but never loaded and I'm back at the blue screen. In addition my DVD is now stuck in the drive. My usual solution, either holding down the clicker on the trackpad, or the Eject button, or both did not cause the DVD to eject. I had some problems earlier, before all this happened, and did manage to re-install Leopard, but a little later got the problem with the broken folder icon as described in my post.

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