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You can hold the C key while booting to force it to looks at the CD.
Sometimes you just need to clear parameter RAM, hold Command+Option+P+R and boot, keep holding till it reboots, you hear the chimes, you can keep holding the keys and let it cycle 2-3 times.
If you are not seeing the Apple Boot logo that could be an EFI/firmware problem.
Do you know if the box is connected to the net? Set for autoupdates? When they update themselves they download the payload and wait till the next reboot to install, sometimes it takes a bit, you think it's hung but it's not.
Depending on age it may boot to FIrewire Target Disc Mode, turns the box into a FW mountable external drive. Plug a FW cable between it and another Mac, boot and hold T key, should mount as a drive on the other box, run disk utilities on it.
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