Cant boot after installin OS X

Just got a Power Mac G4 Tower. I installed OS X, everything looked fine but when on the restart it got stuck on a grey screen with a broken folder icon. What does this mean and how do I fix it?
Please help.

This is the current situation. As previously mentioned I got 2 G4 towers, the second upgraded without any problems it has Panther on it now. With the other tower I’ve installed OS 9.2.2 and upgraded the firmware (with your help, thank you.) I put in the same CD’s that worked in the second tower and now get an error “Startup Disk was unable to select the install CD as the startup disk. (-2)” I’ve also tried restarting holding down C with the panther install disks in and I no longer get the broken folder icon but a flashing apple face and question mark. I let go of C and it boots up in 9.2.2
I feel like I’ve made some progress but I’m still stumped on my next move.
oh yea. the only difference between the 2 towers is one is from 2000 and the other is 2001. The 2000 is the one giving me trouble. Don't know if that matters or not.

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