“Still waiting for boot device” while installing Lion on PC

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I install OSX Lion on a PC today again for a new staff. Here is the configurations.

CPU: Intel i3-2100
Motherboard: Gigabyte H61M-USB3-B3

I have been installing Snow Leopard and Lion to the same CPU and motherboard for many times but never find any problem. I followed iBoot+Multibeast or Andyboot or rBoot but all failed. I then tried iAtkos L2 and hope it will install Lion directly with the boot disc but also failed. All DVD can’t boot and stopped at

“Still waiting for boot device”

This is strange as it can’t boot even if I unplugged all harddrive and leave the DVD drive alone.

I finally found the problem! The harddrive and the DVD drive were both connected to GSATA ports. Mac doesn’t support GSATA by default and they all doesn’t boot correctly. Switch them back to SATA port and everything is fine.

3 thoughts on ““Still waiting for boot device” while installing Lion on PC”

  2. hi
    I use your motherboard and CPU too … and i installed iatkos l2 successfully but after installation when OS X boot with -v option stop at

    ITEIT87x: found ITE IT8728F

    any idea?

  3. Hum… It should be about the fakesmc. Have you installed required fakesmc plugins for your devices? Try to boot with -x to run in Safe Mode and install Multibeast from tonyosx86.

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