Dell Inspiron 1501 Still Waiting On Root Device

[nochoramet]

Hi everyone I've been hunting all over the place and I can't find anyone else that has this problem.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a AMD mobile sempron processor. Me and my teacher successfully installed OSX on an external hard drive using the Leo4All v2. This was the only distro that we got past the "still waiting on root device" error. I recently decided to install it on my native hard drive... and here's where I messed up. I partitioned out the hard drive, formatted a part in fat32. Now I am getting a root device error, and have tried both the -v and -f flags. Nothing that I've tried works. I can't remember how we got it to work the first time (I feel dumb) And to top it all off, I accidentally formatted the part of my external that held OSX, so now I'm just stuck with Windows. I'm reluctant to ask my teacher to help because I'd rather figure this out myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!