ASUS P5LD2 motherboard won't boot from HD

[Aaron VanAlstine]

Thanks. There seems to be two areas in the BIOS where I can set the boot
drive. In the setup utility the 1st boot device is set to Intel Striped
RAID. Additionally, there is an option during POST to select the boot drive
by hitting F8. Although I select hard drive from that screen, it always
defaults to the CD/DVD.


On 5/28/06 11:35, "Gary Corcoran" <gcorcoran at rcn.com> wrote:

> 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