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What can you do if you know the number of your Hard Drive then at the Darwin prompt (after boot press F8) write: rdDiskX where X is the number of your OSX hard drive.

Ive verified that both the HDD and DVD drives are in the first two available SATA ports, and the BIOS is set to use AHCI.

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I highly doubt thats it, and I dont want to re-install windows unless I know I have to.

If the hardware ID isnt there, its not loaded for that piece of hardware.

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However, if you use a special patched Mac OS X installation disk, it might use drivers that arent installed on your installation, and therefore make the disk unavailable to the kernel.

I stumbled onto OSx86 about in 2008 but only started to dangle with it late 2009.

I have to say, I have definitely learned quite a bit compared to what I thought would be possible with a PC, let alone a Mac.

Not trying to dis Macintosh, but before this new hobby I was completely a PC guy.

And no offense to Apple but damn, I cant see myself spending 2000(for the config that I want) for a Mac when I can get it this way.

I actually just tried scraping even deeper into my motherboards BIOS and I discovered there was a second AHCI setting that had to be turned on.

When Trying To Install Mac Os On Virtual Box Still Waiting For Root Device