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What does it mean when your MacBook boots up with a picture of a hard drive and, under it, an upward point arrow in a circle?

The computer was being used a few hours ago, working fine, and was Shutdown in the normal fashion.

ryck

(No Hal, this is not the same daughter's laptop)

Sounds as if the MacBook in question was started up with the Option key (inadvertently?) depressed. This takes you to the Startup Manager. If you only have a single volume available to start from, you'll see the leftmost icon in that picture, which sounds like what you're describing.

Yes, that was the icon and that must be what happened. Prior to seeing your note I did a Safeboot and, from it, a restart.

The result was a bit peculiar in that my daughter's Firefox seemed to have disappeared - a Question Mark where the icon was in the dock, and the application nowhere to be found. One more restart and everything was back to normal, including FireFox.

ryck