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AHCI in Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2

I feel that I could be very close to getting my computer dual booted as a Hacintosh and Windows 7 but I just can't seem to figure out how to change the SATA Configuration to AHCI. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2. I don't see any…

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@wildebeast Published 2013-01-21
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Lion to Catalina (10.7–10.15)
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20,001 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 6 dispatches) · 2013-01-21 – 2013-01-22
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I feel that I could be very close to getting my computer dual booted as a Hacintosh and Windows 7 but I just can't seem to figure out how to change the SATA Configuration to AHCI. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2. I don't see any values in the BIOS that list AHCI as an option. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Follow-up dispatches by @wildebeast

Author Update #1 @wildebeast 2013-01-21

because of this it keeps saying "waiting for root device" when I attempt to start it up.

Author Update #2 @wildebeast 2013-01-22

Ok. I though with RAID you had to have at least two hard drives though. Also when I did try to set up RAiD it seemed somewhat complicated. Maybe if someone could guide me through it.

Author Update #3 @wildebeast 2013-01-22

I am also wondering if Mac OS X will be limited to 2 cores or 4 GB of RAM.

Author Update #4 @wildebeast 2013-01-22

I would really like to get this working dual booted. I have this working in virtual box but I just can't get it to work as a dual boot option.

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 6 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @instant idiot 2013-01-22

If there's a RAID option, try that. RAID usually means AHCI.

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@wildebeastPrimary Author52013-01-21 → 2013-01-22
@instant idiotContributor12013-01-22