ASUS P5LD2 motherboard won't boot from HD

[Olivier Gautherot]

Hi Aaron,

> 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.

This question would be best on questions at freebsd.org. Your problem is not 
about a faulty driver in the system but rather sounds like a boot manager 
issue.

Actually, the anwer is on your problem description: try to swap the IDE cables 
to have your 2 disks on the primary controller and the CD/DVD on the 
secondary. The HD boot manager is taken from the first disk found (it will 
try in sequence Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master and Secondary 
Slave). The CD has a valid boot sector so the PC won't look any further.

Let us know if this helps

Cheers
Olivier
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Olivier Gautherot
olivier at gautherot.net