Leopard on HP Pav. S3500f

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I have a HP Pavilion s3500f

It installs fine

I have to use the rd=disk0s2 to boot into Leopard 10.5.2, having issues there (cant get Vista Home Premium 64 bootloader quite right)

I will work on the boot loader issue after I get it to at least let me work on the OS in GUI mode, with some work via command line in the shells

 

It is the Zephyroth AMD 10.5.2 EFI version 2 of leopard.

 

It comes up with large window saying it cant determine my keyboard type.

it has me press the keys next to each shift in in order, I do so and set keyboard to a US 101/102

asks a couple other localization questions

Goes to Do you own older (or such) Mac?

gives me 4 options (transfer from another mac, volume on this mac, time machine backup, or transfer later option)

I pick the transfer later option

it then loops back up to cant determine keyboard type after few minutes

 

I have done the keyboard setup and pick the last option like 10-30 times, it never leaves that loop.

 

I have even re-installed Leopard a couple of times to see if I missed something.

 

Vista with MacDrive can access the Mac OS X partition no problem.

Disk Management in Vista shows the Mac HD (HFS+) as a Primary partition as well.