We can get the operating system to boot 'by hand' in AHCI mode by doing
the following:

The system was reinstalled using the AHCI SATA option in BIOS. After
installation, we sre dropped to a 'grub rescue' prompt when the OS tries
to boot.

Typing the 'set' command at the grub prompt reveals that the prefix is
set correctly.

prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub

>From there, the kernel and initrd can be loaded manually, the root
device set, and the OS will boot.

grub> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
grub> initrd /initrd.img
grub> boot

Those steps will get the operating system booted in AHCI mode.  None of
this is required if the SATA mode in the BIOS  is changed to ATA or
RaidOn.

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  OS fails to boot certain SATA drives in AHCI mode.

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