You may be back up and running in a few minutes. In that case, simply restart without continuing through a reinstall, perhaps you won't need that. There are mixed reports that the DL Hi-Res model shipped with the elusive 7448, which was more advanced in terms of stepping and heat/efficiency. Hopefully the drive WILL be repaired through this process. AphoticD said: Also, the CPU in the standard 17' is reported by Mac OS X as a 7447A, but my unit has '7447B' stamped on the CPU die. It's a warranty repair, so all you lose is all your data. I want to re-install Panther but I cant get any CD to boot during startup by holding C, including. If you don't see your boot volume in the list (the one with the name of your volume, such as Macintosh HD, or Hard Drive, or other name), and only the device type or nothing at all, then it's very likely a failed hard drive which will need to be replaced.
Do this until nothing is found, or the same 'repair' is repeated a couple of times. If it repairs anything, click repair Disk again. When your Mac shuts off and powers back on, press and hold Cmd + R until you see the Apple logo.
Click on your drive, and then click on Repair Disk (Don't Repair Disk Permissions at this time) and check the results. How to put an Intel Mac into Recovery mode: Click the Apple logo in the top left of your screen, and choose Restart. Instead, click on the Installer menu - at the top of your screen. At the first screen ('Select a Language'), don't continue with the install. Restart your Powerbook to the OS X installer.