I tried installing it, but despite all the information I can find on these forums and other sites, I'm getting "Still waiting for root device" messages.

Being a laptop, I don't have the option to set primary or slave devices. I can choose which device the laptop looks to boot from first. I used a copy of linux live CD to wipe out all partitions on my HDD, and selected it as the main boot device. When it doesn't find anything on the HDD it boots from the DVD.

I've tried both iAtkos v7 10.5.7 and Leo4All v4.1.

I've tried boot commands of:

platform=X86PC -v
platform=ACPI -v
-x -v
-f -v

None were successful in even loading the installer. Does anyone else have any suggestions?