I have a desktop Mac, a 7300, that did that, i.e. boot to the Happy Mac and
no more. It turned out to be a corrupted system file. That in turn was
caused by a bad hard drive. However, I had to disconnect the bad HD ribbon
cable just to get the 7300 to boot off the CD or floppy and that, if needed
will be not easy to do on a 2400c.
Have you tried booting off the floppy drive with a Disk Tools diskette?
Bill
> From: Dan Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This is probably not the problem, but I got the identical symptoms with a
> dead PC card in a slot... It took a while for me to realise that this was
> the problem, and once it was removed, it worked perfectly.
>
>> Three days ago, booted it up, only to be faced with the Happy Mac
>> icon - for a very long time. In fact have gotten little else from it
>> for the past days. Hard drive is spinning, and all the noises up
>> until the Happy Mac are also the ol' familiar ones.
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