Hello!

First off, I personally wouldn't touch one of the distros, but it really depends on how easy you want it to be... I much prefer retail installs, they are far cleaner and easier to update.. + you know exactly what drivers are running on your system.. I recently wrote a tutorial on how to install retail if you wish to follow it. Click me

As for the "waiting for root device", if your HD is IDE, try switching to SATA, it solved the problem for me on multiple occasions

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