imac i5 cannot boot, hd formated cant access disk utility

[malimrav]

Hi guys,

this is my first post and also its gonna be a please help me post

I bought a i5 from a friend, everything worked fine, now we formated the HD and then wanted to do a fresh install. The problem is I cannot acces NOTHING! when I put the leopard osx dvd it starts loading the cd and I get the message panic (cpu 0 caller blablabla)...


kind like this one....
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2506/3843137860_bd547cdd64_b.jpg

and in the middle of the screen I see this....
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742

when i start without a osx dvd I just get a blue folder with a questionmark flashing.

he does not have the dvd that came with imac, I tried it with several osx versions, 10.6.3 , 10.6.4 , 10.6.7

The imac is just a couple of months old and I dont know what to to.
he tells me I need to get the dvd that came with the imac, he thinks its the 10.6.6 and has something to to with the drivers.


My problem is I cannot boot from any osx dvd and do a repair disk/ format disk.

can anyone help me please? If you guys need more info please let me know.

Thank you.

 

[old-wiz]

Are you using a retail osx disk?

The grey disks are machine specific and will only work on the type of machine they ship with.

 

[malimrav]

Yeah, I tried the snow leopard grey and the leopard pink disc.

Is it a possibility to get a recovery disc from someone else with the same specs?

tnx

 

[blueroom]

Either order them from Apple $15 or get the generic Snow Leopard DVD $30