I believe the CD boots - it is just that I do not get to the "Welcome to sysinstall...." screen. I see a brief bios table and then the screen goes blank.
The LED on the DVD drive is green and the drive makes the usual noise.
The keyboard after all that works since I can <CTL><ALT><DEL> to a reboot.
I believe that it has something to do with the default vga screen in the installer. There may be messages prompts there the moniter generates no visual output.