Only a gray screen, cmputer will not start up

Only a gray screen, computer will not start up, a few weeks ago my computer crashed had to do a erase and install since everything was clean I purchased OS 10.4 bundle since I have an ibook too. everything has been working fine for about 7 days now, but now have just a gray screen. I booted up from the OS10.4 disk opened the disk utility and this is what it said.
Verifying volume
volume check failed
1 HFS volume checked
volume needs repair
next I ran repair and..
Volume check failed
Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error

Had posted two questions for same problem and the other one was answered and so this one is answerd too.

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