Strange image when trying to boot from os disk??

So I was trying to boot my macbook from the os disk it came with because it was stuck on the gray apple and spinning wheel screen..Then this came up and its been stuck on it since. I can't move the mouse and none of the keys work. What does it mean?

This is the installer not registering that it is on a laptop and looking for a mouse, the image is suggesting switching on a bluetooth mouse. For a workaround, temporarily connecting a USB mouse will also get past this screen.

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Well i got most of my information off the old one, now I am trying to reinstall Tiger to the MacBook. Problem is I initially tried to do an archive install and the install kept failing after the second disc when it asked for the second install disc.
The people at the Apple store suggested that I try to do a wipe of the hard drive and install. Now when I put in the Disc 1 install disc and boot from the cd drive it just sits for a while and then ejects disc 1 and goes back to the place where the install failed from before ie: it keeps asking for the second install disc.
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I have a macbook air (3,2), and I'm trying to install Arch onto the partition that currently has Ubuntu. I have tried a few different ways to get the Arch core iso onto the usb key drive, but no matter what I do, I am ending up with the message "Missing Operating System" when I boot into it.
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772096+0 records in
772096+0 records out
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64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7691 cylinders, total 15753215 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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Oh, forgot to mention, I did the dd from ubuntu with both bs=4M and without a bs argument. the version without the bs argument is the one that went really fast.
Neither version would boot, so I don't think that the way I'm writing it is the problem.
I did just notice that if I just do a sudo fdisk -l without specifying the drive, I have 2 entries for my drive:
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3946b2c9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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Do the following:
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
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Grey circle with cross in the middle when trying to boot from Tiger DVD

When I try to boot from the DVD that installs Tiger, it get the Apple logo and spinning wheel as usual when booting a Mac OS. Then the Apple logo turns into a grey circle with a cross in the middle, signifying "no"! I haven't locked my firmware, but could it be locked? I got the computer from Apple when my original G5 died (it was a lemon). Did Apple lock the firmware???
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If it is a G5 you have posted in the wrong forum, this is the Intel forum. A G5 is not an Intel Mac, it has the IBM PowerPC CPU.
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I'm attempting to reinstall OS 10.6, and normally it works just fine. However, I got this computer, it reads the Leopard disc just fine, I restart, hold down C and it just hangs out on the apple logo for hours on end and won't boot to disc.
Any ideas?

alainmeyer1 wrote:
Spinning gear? Never in my mac years have I seen a spinning gear when booting from the disc.
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Booting from the original snow leopard cd; I don't believe I possess the original restore disc anymore.
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[SOLVED]Error when trying to boot from a usb drive

I have installed arch linux on a usb drive.
When I am trying to load it , I get the following error :
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I am running Macbook Pro, snow leopard 10.6.8
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I am having trouble trying to boot from my lion osx install disk on a 2007 macbook. The disk ejects when I start up with the option key depressed. Anyone have any ideas?
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Invalid Partition Table"
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I am booting up my system for the first time. It boots up past the Platinum screen, But then it gives me the following errors:
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His fix was..
lol... I'll go ahead and tell you. I was getting all those weird errors.... saying files were corrupt and such. I noticed that in the bios it was reading my CD-RW drive as Slave and wasn't recognizing my DVD drive at all. So... I put the jumper for the DVD Drive on Master.... popped in the Windows XP CD and everything worked fine.
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