Dimac Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 My system: (yes, I know it's as ancient as dinosaur dung, but it can work according to HCL): P4C800E-Deluxe Pentium 4 3.0 GHz RAM 2 Gb XFX 6600GT (AGP) Seagate 120Gb (connected to Southbridge ICH5) There's no AHCI in BiOS, so I config'd SATA as IDE (it can be config'd as RAID0, for which I'd have to buy a second ancient HDD somewhere). But first, a question: How does "no AHCI" setting manifest itself if one tries to install MacOSX? So far, I had the following progress: - Darwin 10.6.0 by director A.K. - installs fine; first attempt to boot leads to grey Apple screen forever (black screen if -v) - Hazard 10.6.6; iAtkos 10.6.3 - stall forever during "Unmounting disk" during partition (undertermined "Christmas candy" progress bar) - [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] by tonymac + retail OS - grey Apple screen forever once the retail DVD is inserted after [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] If AHCI is not set, can the system still install fine, like in the case of my first build? How does "no AHCI" setting manifest itself? Is there a way to know a problem is caused by "no AHCI" as opposed to by something else? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272301-no-ahci-in-bios-mobo-p4c800e-deluxe/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 RAID normally implies AHCI. It should work having it set it to RAID mode without having drives in a RAID setup. If you have Windows installed, this will cause it to stop booting but all you need to do is to install the correct driver in Windows first. There are plenty of tutorials available that deal with this, find them with google. AHCI is not a requirement to run OS X, it's just easier that way because the drivers that ship with OS X expects to see a SATA controller in AHCI mode. If your SATA controller can't be set to AHCI mode you need an injector or driver for it that works in non-AHCI mode. For Intel chipsets, this is AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext. There is also ATAPortInjector.kext which might work for you, and if you set it to RAID mode you can probably use AHCIPortInjector.kext. Find out which hard drive controller you have and find out which driver can drive it in non-AHCI mode if RAID mode doesn't work for you. If you can complete the install process that means the DVD you used has the correct driver for your SATA controller on it. Something else is wrong, wrong or conflicting stuff selected in the customize section for example. Try again with the DVD that worked for you but select as little as possible - bootloader, patched kernel, decrypter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272301-no-ahci-in-bios-mobo-p4c800e-deluxe/#findComment-1771489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimac Posted November 18, 2011 Author Share Posted November 18, 2011 Turns out I had to install the Chipset -> ICH Fix for non-AHCI driver during the customization. Thanks for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272301-no-ahci-in-bios-mobo-p4c800e-deluxe/#findComment-1771705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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