OSX 10.5 booting issue

[Luke]

I think I may have borked the MAC Mini we have here.

I was copying a DMG of the OS installation DVD, and dropped it at the root. Then trhough my total newbieness, I launched the DVD.

Now when I boot the machine, it gets to the grey screen with the apple logo, and doesn't progress any further.
I have tried booting from the DVD by pressing C and then selecting the hard drive as the boot device, but this doesn't change anything.

I've gone into single user mode and had a look at the volumes, and there are three showing. The HDD, a network share, and "MAC OS X Install DVD" which shows as a directory.

Now this is without the DVD in the drive, so I think it is the last volume that is causing the issue.

Is it trying to boot of a phantom volume?

Can anyone suggest how I can rectify this without having to rebuild it?

Cheers

 

[NickK]

Have you tried inserting the hardware test CD?

 

[Luke]

Is that a different disc than the install disc?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Is that a different disc than the install disc?

No.

To run the Apple Hardware Test, you must start up from the disc or volume containing the test:

* If you have an Apple Hardware Test CD, start up from it as you would any other bootable disc:

1. Insert the Apple Hardware Test disc that came with your Mac into your Mac's optical drive.
2. Restart your Mac using either of the following methods:

• o Select Restart in the Apple menu.
• o Press the Command-Control-Eject keyboard combination.

3. Immediately press and hold the C key on your keyboard.
4. Release the C key after the Apple Hardware Test appears on your display and indicates that it is loading.