FreeBSD woes, back to Rails, project management
Trying to install FreeBSD on my main computer, thanks in part to a new 500gb hard drive replacing my old 90gb hard drive(woo hoo!), I get “BTX Halted” over and over again. Nothing else. I’ve tried i386 and amd64 builds(I’m on amd64 but it was a recommended fix) as well as disabling the DMA on my ide controllers, as well as disabling the ide controllers completely. Nothing works. The only remaining idea I have, before switching to a linux system completely, is to unplug any usb storage devices, based on this pr. However, as I am booting up from an external USB CD/DVD drive it could be a problem rewiring my main system completely to get it to even fit, as space is very cramped in the system(mostly towards the bottom, thanks in part to SLI taking up all the space along with the power cables). But the IDE controllers are right behind the video cards, d’oh. If that doesn’t work, or if I can’t find time soon enough, I’ll probably install gentoo. Not that I ever got along with it before.
I’m going to get back into rails, and as I never completed my older tutorial, I’m going to document this project as much as I can to help everybody out that needs it. It will be a project management tool that works the way I work, which is very loosely organized(but organization is needed!!). It will be dual interfaced, XUL and Web, multiple users(for multiple clients as well as devs and potentially managers), and the XUL interface will live as both a XulRunner app and a firefox extension.
I haven’t brought out rails or ruby in awhile, and my hard drive is all fudged up thanks to a lack of space(haven’t moved windows over to the 500gb side yet, and tried to and C got renamed F while my D drive which is my primary remains the same, sigh).
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Comment from Zach
Time: May 7, 2007, 3:03 pm
Hey,
I found this article searching for the BTX loader problem that you were having trying to install FreeBSD.
I removed my external USB CDROM drive and hooked up an IDE one and this resolved my issue. Hope this helps someone else.
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