I need to repair my hard drive with disk utility. I am unable to boot from my install disk. Only apple logo appears and nothing loads... thanks for your help...
how are you trying to boot from the DVD? by holding "c" at the boot chime? reboot and hold option at the chime. this will boot you into startup disk manager where you can choose to boot from the dvd.
Always good to have a bootable 2nd hard drive to run repairs. And, to have 3rd party tools available, which can't use on DVD. Also, using the original DVD is less than optimal for repairing a drive or permissions (Disk Utility routines do change and get updated).
A corrupt directory on any of your hard drives can prevent booting; some people found that after installing SL they had trouble with their superdrive, too.
If you can boot into single user mode, try that and try using fsck from there.
