Leopard wont boot from external or install properly
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.
Thank you very much for reading and helping.
Edit: 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?