Retail Leopard on HP dv6000t

[Dolina]

I have been trying (for the past week) to install Leopard OS X 10.5.6 onto my HP Pavilion dv6000t.

I used any and all Boot-132's I could find.

It reads the disc, gives "boot:", and I switch to Leopard OS X retail disc.

It reads and seems like it's installing, giving the gray screen with the Apple logo.

The blue screen appears, no mouse, no pinwheel, nothing.

 

I used my iMac to install Leopard onto my 500 GB external HDD (FantomDrives, Titanium II). It installed and boots on the iMac.

 

I plug it into the HP, change the boot order in the BIOS settings, and I get a blinking cursor. Nothing happens.

 

I have tried the Kalyway 10.5.2 disc. It will install successfully with the Darwin Bootloader too. I had it partitioned with XP until it became unstable and I got a retail disc; I got stuck.

 

I have tried installing Kalyway on the HP and doing a "Restore" from the install disc, including making an .iso and trying that too. I've tried using the Boot-132 CD to start the external partition. I can supply the Kalyway install options if you need it. I'm starting to think my NVidia 945 video chips isn't compatible.

 

The external is partitioned as such:

TITANIUM (FAT32) 377.76 GB [currently empty]

Leopard OS X (Journaled) 22.13 GB (where the working install is)

WINDOWS XP (FAT32) 22.00 GB [currently empty]

WIN VISTA (FAT32) 22.00GB [currently empty]

MS DOS (FAT32) 21.24 GB [currently empty]

 

I'm willing to reformat everything and start over. This is driving me crazy.

 

Found and installed Chameleon v2.0 and it brought up a boot loader for the external and the primary HDD with Windows on it. However, now it's stuck at the gray "shiny" apple spinny thingy. Any suggestions?

 

Thank you very much for reading and helping.