macintosh lcii

First time poster and second time vintage Mac owner. Never posted on a forum before, very much inexperienced as well so bear with me. I recently received an LCII from a family member, and it seemed to boot without booting from the hard drive. I concluded that the drive was dead, no surprise...

With a Macintosh LCII machine it was working ok but following an attempt to start from an external drive it now does not boot properly. Model: Macintosh LC II - AP1455-03 The drive showed the following start-up error: Which I think it a software error... I think that it was from a PowerPC...