After failed Tiger Upgrade Powermac G4 doens't boot

Hi,
Basically the subject says all: A friend asked me to install Tiger on her Powerbook G4 that has been running Panther 10.3.9.
During the installation, the installer halted and said "an error occured could not install OS X" or something similiar (in German). No reason was given, just "an error occured".
Anyway I changed the startup volume to Mac OS X HD where Panther is supposed to be and rebooted. After hearing the first chime the boot up gets stuck at the grey screen (Apple + progresswheel) but then nothing happens anymore.
I can boot holding the option key to go to startup volume, where again I can select the MacOSX HD. Also I was able to boot into the Open Firmware.
I browsed through the support forums but was not able to find a solution. What could I do?
Thanks a lot for helping me (I still haven't told my friend...)
Georg

Look at *Gray screen appears during startup*
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
This link says it applies to Tiger, but try the suggestions. May also work with Panther.
Can you boot using a Panther installer? If so, do an Archive & Install & check to preserve user settings. When you attempted to install Tiger from an installer for another model Mac, you've probably corrupted the current Panther system files.
Hopefully your friend has a backup of the files on the hard drive, because you may have to erase the hard drive & reinstall the Panther system & applications.
 Cheers, Tom

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