Trying to start from Tiger DVD gets cryptic screen

I am having trouble starting up my iBook. I get to the log in screen, type in my password, and the computer stalls after I get my desktop background picture. The tech at the Apple Store told me to reinstall my operating system. I tried to do a start-up on the DVD, but I'm getting a screen with two ovals (they look like the Apple mouse for my iMac). One appears to be telling me to install some batteries, and the second seems to be telling me to lock the cover. I can't boot up on the install disk without getting past the road block. Any ideas what this screen is telling me to do?

Tom, Welcome to the discussion area!
I had that happen to me a couple of weeks ago. Kind of weird isn't it. It took me a few minutes of head scratching before I figured it out.
This indicates that your iBook shipped with a version of 10.4.x and therefore won't boot from the Tiger retail 10.4.
So instead of booting from the Tiger disc, boot from the restore disc that came with your iBook. That will have the proper version of OS 10.4.x to boot your iBook.

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Changing your startup disk
You can make your computer start up from a CD, a network volume, a different disk or disk partition, or another operating system (such as Mac OS 9 if your computer supports it). To do so, you change your startup disk.
Open System Preferences and click Startup Disk.
If necessary, click the lock icon and type the name and password for an administrator user.
Click the icon of the system folder or system volume that you want to use, then click Restart.
IMPORTANT: When selecting a network startup volume, be sure you select a valid network startup volume and not a network install image. Choosing a network install image reinstalls your system software and may erase the contents of your hard disk. A standard network volume icon appears as a globe and Mac OS X system folder. When you select a network volume icon, a message appears in the Startup pane describing the volume. A network install icon appears as a globe with downward pointing green arrow.
Another way to select a startup disk is to hold down the Option key as you restart your computer. You'll see the available startup disks and can select one.
If your computer is on a network and a network startup volume is available, you can start up from the network startup volume by holding down the N key as you restart your computer.
If you start up your computer in Mac OS 9, use the Startup Disk control panel in the Apple menu to switch back to your Mac OS X startup disk. Then restart the computer.
If Mac OS 9 is not available, your computer will only start up in Mac OS X. You can still use most Mac OS 9 applications in the Classic environment. To do this, open System Preferences, click Classic, and then click Start.
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So what specific model is this iMac? Is it a G5? Or is it an Intel iMac?
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Greetings,
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One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
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I always had a pristine system: no kernel panics, no system hangs. Then, one day I started to have kernel panics and hang ups and when I tried to install XCode it failed, then I couldn't install iWork '06. At first I thought it was a problem with the disk until I decided to run Apple's hardware test. After all, it was just a problem with one of the 512MBs memory DIMMs. Removed the offending DIMM and everything went back to normal.
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