Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 14:35:36 -0400 From: Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com> To: Aaron VanAlstine <aaronvan@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS P5LD2 motherboard won't boot from HD Message-ID: <4479ED78.7080305@rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <C09F1D6F.2E25%aaronvan@comcast.net> References: <C09F1D6F.2E25%aaronvan@comcast.net>
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Aaron VanAlstine wrote: > I'm a newbie and I just built my first computer. I successfully loaded > FreeBSD 6.0 from CD; however, the computer seems to think the CD-ROM is a > hard drive and is trying to boot from that. During boot-up it auto detects > the DVD ROM as the Pri Master, and the two HDs as 3rd and 4th Master. When > it gets to the boot-stage, I get a message ³Reboot and Select proper Boot > device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key.² > According to the BIOS setup utility the 1st boot device is Intel Striped > RAID. Yet, when I restart and hit F8 to select the BBS popup menu, it > appears that the DVD is still the boot device. I change it to the HD and > re-boot and still I get the original message above. > > The DVD/CD cable is connected to the blue primary IDE on the motherboard and > the two HD are connected to SATA1 and SATA2. From the Main screen of the > BIOS setup utility: > > -- Primary IDE Master is the NEC DVD RW. > -- Primary IDE Slave Not Detected, > -- IDE Configuration is RAID (OnBoard Serial-ATA BOOTROM is Disabled.) > > Any ideas on how I can make the system boot from the Hard drive? Thanks! Try changing your BIOS settings so that your hard drive is the first boot device, AND/OR change the BIOS settings so that the "first disk" is the first SATA hard drive (and not IDE). If that doesn't work, sorry, I can't help further - I've never setup a system with no parallel ATA disks at all. Gary
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