Well, you're getting closer!

After installing, when you reboot there is no need for F8, you should have the cameleon bootloader and it should load OSX by default! What happens when you let it load without F8?

Try -s at boot for single user mode and see if you reach a command prompt!

I'm not very good with unix messages and I don't know much about it but try posting the boot log.... maybe typing 'dmesg' at the command prompt with some switch can show it to you page by page... try posting some of it here...

Also, what did you check in the installer when you did 'Customize'...

I don't think you're far from booting...

Good luck!

p.s. I thought... when you boot, if you don't have a bootloader, graphical, with the cameleon image and the bar that load backward, that means the bootloader wasn't installed or can't be found... maybe in your BIOS there's an option that protects the boot - I have that option... 'boot write protection' or sth... this has to be disabled maybe for the bootloader to be installed, because when you check 'customize' when you install, one of the first thing that is checked by default is the cameleon boot loader... so it should be there when you reboot... check it!