Disk Utility "BUSTER BAR"

Question

Hello,
I was trying to repair my hard drive by using my tiger install DVD (family pack) by restarting by holding the c down. I get this “buster bar” circle with line through it, where the apple is with the litte pin wheel spinning at the bottom. I have never seen this. So then I restart using the power button and click on the DVD and do the restart to install figure I can get to the disk utility from there. Same thing happens, I didn’t look through any books this time trying to find the buster bar and what it meant, saved me 15 minutes.. this time I went to system perf and choose the DVD as the startup disc and yes the same buster bar appeared. I believe what the buster bar indicates is that I have used all my installs on the DVD. But how am I supposed to get to the first aid or disk repair if I can’t start up with the DVD. I paid for it as I did all the other “CATS” . panther jaguar puma I did not have this problem until I used the last install, I guess. Any ideas that don’t involve buying some other product. It is a principle thing.
Computer iMac G5 1.9GHz Power PC 1GB DDR2 SDRAM
This what it said in a pop up window
Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD” because the following error was encountered:
The underlying task reported failure on exit
this what disk utility said on verifying the hard drive
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking multi-linked files.
og hierarchy.",0)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume The volume osh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair

Answer 1

Thanks for your answer it sent me in the right direction. I got the iMac G5 Mac OS X install Disc 1 out of the pile of cd’s and used it. Did the hardware test aok and then ran the disk utility and repaired the hard drive. Thank you again, I should have known that…… But I was sure that I had used the tiger install DVD (family pack) that’s 5 installs, to startup and do the same thing before. Maybe not on this iMac but maybe on the … B&W G3, 500MHz ibook, 1GHz eMac, 1.25 GHz eMac, GHz 1.33GHz ibook, or the 400 MHz G4, which is where all the installs went the last on the 400 G4. So after I followed your advise, that worked very well, I just put the tiger install DVD (family pack) in the 400 g4 restarted held down the “C” and it brings up the installer and utilities. Therefore, I guess if you have a tiger install DVD (family pack) with unused installs on it you are able to use it as a startup disc on any feasible Mac. If you have used all the installs you can only use it as a startup disc on those machines you used it to install on. Because I have never seen a buster bar on a start up screen before. Once again thanks
Scott