What does it mean when the computer says "i am hanging here"

I was cleaning off my hard drive to give the computer to charity, and I must have thrown too much away.  Now the computer, when booting, displays a bunch of jibberish writing on the display, ending with the phrase "I am hanging here."  I already backed up the data, so I could clean the hard drive and start from scratch, but I don't know how to begin the boot-up process so that I can put the operating system and "software restore" discs in.  Any suggestions?
Dick

It means you've made it impossible for the machine to boot properly. You will need to erase the drive and reinstall OS X.
Erase and Install OS X
1. Boot from your OS X 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.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area.  If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.  SMART info will not be reported  on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs,) then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install OS X.

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