Can't boot from Mac OSX CD.

Hi, i wanted to do a fresh install of snow leopard on my MBP, but when i try to boot from the snow leopard disk, it just hangs at a white screen with a grey apple logo on it. Ive tried install it from my desktop, it finished but absolutely nothing happened. Ive also tried booting while pressing option, and while pressing c.
I also want to use disk utility from the installation disk to repair my Macintosh HD. But i cant get into the cd..
oh yeah and while i tried to install it from my desktop, there was this button on the left bottom corner called Utilities. I pressed it thinking that disk utility was there and it told me to boot into the disk. I pressed restart and the same thing happened. it just hangs at the white screen with the grey apple logo. nothing else. and i also hear the disk stop spinning.
any ideas???
Message was edited by: macmacpc

Maybe you killed your boot drive.
Normally you should of course be able to boot from SL DVD and instead of INSTALL go to menu bar and UTILITIES and select DISK UTILITY.
ZAP the PRAM will result in the "?" because the boot volume setting is no longer present. You can reset that also from SL DVD Utility / Startup Disk
My methods:
Clone and have a bootable backup first, DU Restore; or SuperDuper
Run utilities from there, like Disk Warrior
Even though you are suppose to be able to install from desktop, SL also needs to "prepare disk" (update partition table) and it is safer and really really adviseable to do repair from the DVD, as with any upgrade have a couple backups in place first.

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