Lost OSX strange icon on reboot

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I have an older G4 with OS9, when I got my Power book with OSX, I upgraded the G4 as well, to network and share files. Problem: today I had a crash on the G4, when I went to restart, it opened in OS9, and when I went to the start up disk prompt, the OSX was not there.
After trying everything I know, and rebooting several times, it now gives me a blinking questionmark in a folder...I know this is not good. What can I do?...OK, as I turned to my laptop to write this, the G4 (which had the blinking questionmark) all of a sudden started up in OSX...can anyone tell me what is going on here? And, is there something I can do to avoid this happening again?
 
Simply re-select your startup folder in the "Startup Disk" pane of the System Preferences while booted in OS X.

What's happening is that your computer doesn't know which folder to start up from, so the blinking question mark thing means it's searching for a bootable folder. Once it finds one (which can take some minutes), it'll boot normally. By selecting the correct startup folder as described above, this shouldn't happen anymore.
 
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