Black screen during installation of XP on Mini

I'm trying to install XP 32 SP2 onto the kids' Mini running 10.6.4.
Disk partitioning goes fine, booting from the XP CD goes fine, the installer's first blue screen comes up just fine, I watch the usual seven tons of drivers load in the status bar at the bottom of the screen, and then... The screen goes black. I was expecting the usual questions about how to format the partition, but instead... nothing.
Any ideas?

The monitor supports both VGA and DVI-D. I was using DVI-D.
On a hunch, I slapped a DVI-D/VGA adapter on the back of the Mini and swapped in a VGA cable.
Suddenly, I got the disk formatting screen I expected instead of the black screen.

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