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How to make an PCI-E SSD bootable?

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ASUS P8Z77-V LX
CPU
Intel Core i7-3770K (64 Bit) & Graphics
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048 MB GDDR5
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Hi all,

I tried now 4 days long to make my new drive bootable. I got not so much know-how in this part of building an hackintosh.

My specifications:

- ASUS P8Z77-V LX
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Intel Core i7-3770K (64 Bit) & Graphics
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048 MB GDDR5
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Intel Sockel 1155
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16 GB (4x 4 GB) DDR3 (1600 MHz)
- ASUS ROG RAIDR PCI Express SSD 240 GB


My attempts:

First I installed Mavericks new (I did it several times).
Then I installed all the drivers like audio, network (worked fine).
After that I tried to install Chimera v2.2.1 (worked fine).
If I want to boot via BIOS (directly the drive choose), I'm stuck at this screen, and can't go back:

IMG_0565.jpg

Really oddly is that everytime i reboot, I get for 1 second this message (before I can boot or something like that):

IMG_0587.jpg

It's really strange but I hope someone can help me seriously.
Thanks in advance :)


EDIT:

So after testing I have some new screenshots. I booted verbose. The first screenshot is via SSD directly. The second one is via USB-stick.
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IMG_0079.jpg

And please post here whatever you think. It can be very helpful.
 
Have you tried taking out the graphics card and booting with just the integrated HD 4000 ?
It's worth a try if you haven't. Make sure to set init display first to igfx in the bios.
 
I was wondering if there's been any progress on this?

I've been looking at 3 PCIe SSDs - the one you have, the Mushkin Scorpion, and the OWC Accelsior (which boasts OS X support out of the box). Wondering which will work best as a boot drive in my hack.
 
Original Apple / Samsung 1Tb SSD w Adaptor pcie 4x...

Any Clover boot Argument to load system from it?

(If posible a SSD/HD for load Clover & from there, load PCIe SSD System?)
 
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