Booted using safeGraphics mode. It was a little slow to boot, but I got a desktop. The settings were incorrect, but they should be able to be tweaked. since the resolutions were to high, I could not access the menu. I someone is good a launching from a run command, a simple F2 brings up the run dialog.
The Bad: File system on /dev/hda not recognized. Says not a valid partition table. ACPI not enabled, a little funkieness with wifi, not bad,
I hit F2 and opened a terminal
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Here is a little about what dmesg showed, see attached.
Also I just edited /etc/network/interfaces to include my wireless info. Odd thing is the wifi card was picked up on eth0 not Wlan. After adding the essid, channel, and mode a simple restart of networking and I was online.
See also output on networking restart.
I did get a checker board effect on the screen after applying the networking restart, a simple mouse movement brought the desktop back.