Rebooting from a clean disk

I wnated to do a complete disk clean as I'm giving the computer to a grandchild. I used disk utility and did a 7 wipe. There still remained the edrive. I tried to get rid of that and now I can't boot even from an OS 9 CD.I'm at a loss what to do next. any ideas welcome. I do get the apple logo on start but after a minute or so it shuts off and reboots, goes through the start/stop cycle until I unplug.
Thanks for any suggestions!

Was the eDrive created by Tech Tool Pro? In that case you have to boot from the TTP disk and use it to delete that partition.
You should be able to boot from that disk since it includes an OS.

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