From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 28 18:02:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9725A16C1F1 for ; Sun, 28 May 2006 18:02:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aaronvan@comcast.net) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [63.240.77.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5FA43D4C for ; Sun, 28 May 2006 18:02:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaronvan@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-67-180-170-102.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[67.180.170.102]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <20060528180251013007v4abe>; Sun, 28 May 2006 18:02:51 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.3.060209 Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:59:05 -0700 From: Aaron VanAlstine To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Why won't FreeBSD boot from hard drive?? Thread-Index: AcaCgGippvopru5zEdqjywAFAmHJOg== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Why won't FreeBSD boot from hard drive?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 18:02:53 -0000 I successfully loaded FreeBSD 6.0 from CD all the way until the system reboots; however, the computer seems regard the DVD/CD as the boot 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 =B3Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key.=B2 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 =B3Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" message. The DVD/CD cable is connected to the blue primary IDE on the motherboard an= d 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 instead of trying the DVD/CD? My hardware consists of: ASUS P5LD2 ACPI Bios Revision 0901 motherboard Pentium D 820 2.8 GHz dual-core NEC ND-3550A DVD+/-RW 2 x 512 Corsair 667 DDR2 RAM 2 x 80G Western Digital SATA HD configured in RAID 0 ASUS EN6600 graphics card Antec case Targus keyboard Belkin 3-button optical mouse Thanks! -- Aaron VanAlstine