I will try as soon as I get home from work. Thanks for the advice.

I have tried a SATA drive. Definitely does not work. I don't even have a settings in my BIOS to make it show up as IDE. And as far as boot flags, I'm not sure what those are. Everything "seems" to be going fine except the "still waiting for root device" deal.

I report back as soon as I try after work. Thanks again.