@Perception

OK guys, heres the scenario. I built a media computer for my home, and wasn't exactly planning to install OSX86 on it, my first mistake, i know, since I didnt plan the hardware accordingly. My first motherboard gave me a "still waiting for…

“thorazine, yeah i really wish i had more to tell on the subject, but i've tried ACHI and I only use SATA disks. After I gave up on it, my plan is now to wait until some new distros come out that support all my hardware. thanks again to ever…”

“macsang, thanks for your post, im glad to see that this old thread still got some attention somehow. I did put in a pcie vid card, and made sure it was selected as the default card in the bios, but this problem is still an issue. Was there …”

“Andyvand...and all the rest, thanks so much for the continued input. Unfortunately, I have the latest BIOS for the mobo, but I suppose I could just wait until a new one comes out and see if it fixes my issues. Otherwise, anyone who reads th…”

“If it is like SB450 (S)ATA I can make a driver for this... Does your SATA drive support being used in IDE mode? If so I need more info on the controller (from either Windows msinfo32 or .ioreg file from IORegistryExplorer...). I'd love to g…”

“Ok, I discovered that the installer app on iPC 10.5.6, can run in OSX and install the new OSX setup to an external drive. So I used iPC, and installed OSX to my external HDD so I could just take it upstairs, plug it into my media computer a…”

“Thank you everyone for the replies, hopefully I can get a solution worked out of this whole thing. So let me get this straight, I can use the USB thumb-drive method and bypass these problems as long as I already have an OSX environment? Eve…”

“Ok everyone hold on a second…I don't think I'm getting my problem across correctly... the error i'm getting is "Waiting for boot volume with UUID…" not "still waiting for root device" Also, I can't get chameleon set up on the disk, because …”

“Not only that, but if that's the only solution, does anybody know where to find drivers for the 790GX and SB750?”

“HAWKs, thanks for the reply, your input is appreciated. I have tried iDeneb, XxX, and iPC all with no luck, but it's not that the osx installs and then I cant boot, the problem is the osx disk wont even install...it just stops on this "stil…”