Mac frozen at boot-up screen with progress bar

I was running windows 7 on boot-camp and when i shut off my computer by pressing and holding the power button and then turning it on again and letting it boot to mac os x by itself. It turned on started to boot but a progress bar popped up under the cog wheel and it was taking a while so i shut it off by holding the power button and tried to turn it on again. I turned it on the same thing happened except this time the progress bar disappeared when it was less than 1/10 loaded and the cogwheel kept on turning for the next 15 minutes. Now every time it turns on it does that and won't boot up mac os x. Iv tried to hold the shift key while it boots and tried to boot it up by holding the options key (didn't work...), oh and windows 7 still works in boot-camp. Can i get some help please?

I have asked that your post be moved to the intel forum, you do not have a G5.

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