MacBook7,1 Will not boot after upgrading to mountain lion

I have a MacBook7,1 with 2GB of memory and the NVIDIA GeForce 320M with 256 MB. I just upgraded to Mountain Lion. However, when it tries to boot it comes up, shows the apple and then restarts. It does this continuously. Every once in a while I can login but shortly there after it reboots.
I booted from a DVD and ran the Disk Utility. I am able to verify disk permissions and verify disk with no reported issues.
From what I can tell my MacBook is a supported model but it sure does not seem like it.
Any suggestions of anything else I could try and/or check would be greatly appreciated.

I suggest:
Install or Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

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