Picture of Mac hard drive on startup - problem?

[IceBus]

This morning I started up my early 2009 unibody Macbook as normal, having turned it off last night.

When I hit the power button, instead of the usual startup it gave me a little picture of the hard drive, and an arrow to click, which I did, then it started up as normal with the 'bong' etc.

Is there anything wrong with my Mac, i.e. is it warning me of imminent hard drive failure, or can anyone else explain what happened?

Thanks!

 

[Feek]

Sounds as though it's forgotten which is your boot device, have you played around with bootcamp recently?

Go to System Preferences and click on startup devices (I think that's what it's called, this is from memory) and select your OS X drive. That should sort you out.

 

[IceBus]

Hmm weird... I hadn't touched Bootcamp. Thanks for the help though, and nice to know it's nothing serious!!

 

[MagicBoy]

Either the startup device was wrong, or you pressed the alt/option key when it powered on. Check the Startup Disk is System Preferences.