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Mortus

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Has anybody else had issues with two BAMT rigs on the same network?

If I put two BAMT rigs (different hardware different IP's leased) only one of them will mine, If I place the other on a different subnet they both work fine?

thanks

-Tom

abracadabra

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Quote from: nightengale on May 23, 2013, 04:57:48 PM

Anyone have any ideas?

Running an MSI Z77A-GD65 and a Radeon 6950 with a powered x1 to x16 riser cable. BAMT will boot with no PCIe attached, however when I attach the above card via riser cable, I get the "startpar: services(s) returned failure: gdm ... failed!" error. The "failed!" in red is a nice touch... : ) I've tried plugging into different x1 and x16 ports, and error persists. Again, no problems without the video card attached...

Am really trying to avoid installing Winders -- does anyone know what I might be doing wrong here?

why use a riser? Connect card to mobo direct. What happens? Take the riser cable out of the equation.

nightengale

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Anyone have any ideas?

Running an MSI Z77A-GD65 and a Radeon 6950 with a powered x1 to x16 riser cable. BAMT will boot with no PCIe attached, however when I attach the above card via riser cable, I get the "startpar: services(s) returned failure: gdm ... failed!" error. The "failed!" in red is a nice touch... : ) I've tried plugging into different x1 and x16 ports, and error persists. Again, no problems without the video card attached...

Am really trying to avoid installing Winders -- does anyone know what I might be doing wrong here?

BitMinerN8

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Quote from: Mortus on May 22, 2013, 02:32:33 AM

I would also love to be able to monitor them from just one page but can't figure that out.

Hints for getting mgpumon running:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.856246

Mortus

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Quote from: BitMinerN8 on May 21, 2013, 01:38:27 PM

Quote from: Mortus on May 21, 2013, 01:30:11 PM

Quote from: BitMinerN8 on May 21, 2013, 12:22:29 PM

Quote from: Mortus on May 21, 2013, 10:32:52 AM

I hope somebody can help with my (prob) silly question.

I have 1 rig configured with 3 x 5770 hashing away happy, I added another rig with 1 x 6870 but configured ok but wont do any hashing at all?

Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaseeeeeeeee help me n00bie issue

Without knowing your configuration specifics, I would say that if the GPU is seen by BAMT it's going to be something in your config files, like your pool connect string. You might start there.

I tried coping a working pool file but it still didn't work Sad

Maybe pastebin your config file for review?

Ok here is the config from my first rig

http://pastebin.com/HQEYWcZz

and the second

http://pastebin.com/8rNCrdHb

When ever I bring one of the rigs online the other goes offline??

I would also love to be able to monitor them from just one page but can't figure that out.

thanks

P.S. I have just tried a fresh bamt.conf from examples and edited my settings into it and I get the same result......

P.P.S I have just tried it on another network and they both run fine, so it appears to be a network related issue? Huh

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Quote from: Mortus on May 21, 2013, 01:30:11 PM

Quote from: BitMinerN8 on May 21, 2013, 12:22:29 PM

Quote from: Mortus on May 21, 2013, 10:32:52 AM

I hope somebody can help with my (prob) silly question.

I have 1 rig configured with 3 x 5770 hashing away happy, I added another rig with 1 x 6870 but configured ok but wont do any hashing at all?

Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaseeeeeeeee help me n00bie issue

Without knowing your configuration specifics, I would say that if the GPU is seen by BAMT it's going to be something in your config files, like your pool connect string. You might start there.

I tried coping a working pool file but it still didn't work Sad

Maybe pastebin your config file for review?

Mortus

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Quote from: BitMinerN8 on May 21, 2013, 12:22:29 PM

Quote from: Mortus on May 21, 2013, 10:32:52 AM

I hope somebody can help with my (prob) silly question.

I have 1 rig configured with 3 x 5770 hashing away happy, I added another rig with 1 x 6870 but configured ok but wont do any hashing at all?

Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaseeeeeeeee help me n00bie issue

Without knowing your configuration specifics, I would say that if the GPU is seen by BAMT it's going to be something in your config files, like your pool connect string. You might start there.

I tried coping a working pool file but it still didn't work Sad

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Quote from: lodcrappo on May 12, 2013, 06:43:37 PM

It took me a couple more months to write version 0.6, which includes support for the 7970s. I did release it for testing, but I never really got any feedback on it.

Some feedback:

The image was OK, around 400MB in size and at first run there was a pop-up asking to decide between 5xxx series, 7xxx series or NO GPU NO AMD (or something like that).

I choose at first NO GPU but nothing really happened (most likely because of the missing repo), shortly after the pop-up asked me to reboot, only to be welcomed again by the same pop-up and so on and on.

So I choose 7xxx the second time and the driver (12.8/8.982) was installed and that was pretty much it.
Since bamter.org is down, the SDK (2.7 according to the configer ) and also BFGminer were not installed.
(looking in common.pl I see that cgminer was thrown completely away although bamt.conf is still using it.)

I installed them manually and ended up with a workable system with all 5 cards recognized and mining but nothing seems to be automatized like previous BAMT.
You have to start all you need by hand, they are not even in the menus. (Is that because the setup was never really completed, or not yet implemented?)
The system has also a bad habit of keep rebooting two-three times until it really starts.
Once started, the system is stable.

So there you have it, it kinda works but I cant tell much until the repos are still up.
(cough, cough...https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2130150 )

BTW, anyone else tried this while the repos were up?

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Quote from: Mortus on May 21, 2013, 10:32:52 AM

I hope somebody can help with my (prob) silly question.

I have 1 rig configured with 3 x 5770 hashing away happy, I added another rig with 1 x 6870 but configured ok but wont do any hashing at all?

Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaseeeeeeeee help me n00bie issue

Without knowing your configuration specifics, I would say that if the GPU is seen by BAMT it's going to be something in your config files, like your pool connect string. You might start there.

Mortus

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I hope somebody can help with my (prob) silly question.

I have 1 rig configured with 3 x 5770 hashing away happy, I added another rig with 1 x 6870 but configured ok but wont do any hashing at all?

Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaseeeeeeeee help me n00bie issue

nightengale

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Don't have board in front of me but it's probably a more obscure one. The system I'm testing it on is one of those compact Shuttle brand small form factor machines, so the board may not be a common one. That's a good thought about the USB though -- maybe I'll blow the BAMT image to a spare SATA drive and try to boot from that...

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Quote from: nightengale on May 20, 2013, 09:54:40 AM

I know it probably seemed like a dumb question : ) I've tried Centon, Kingston, Sandisk, generic, and even a Transcend SD card, still no luck.

Must be an incompatible board I guess. If anyone has another fix, please let me know.

what mobo? I know some gigabyte? mobos won't boot a linux partition off usb.

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I know it probably seemed like a dumb question : ) I've tried Centon, Kingston, Sandisk, generic, and even a Transcend SD card, still no luck.

Must be an incompatible board I guess. If anyone has another fix, please let me know.

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Quote from: nightengale on May 20, 2013, 09:03:50 AM

Could a couple of people post what type of thumb drives they've gotten to work with BAMT? I'm on my fourth thumb drive on two different systems and still no love.

cheapest possible no-name usbs i can find locally that have a lifetime warranty. always keep image backups and extra usbs laying around

microcenter.com

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Quote from: nightengale on May 20, 2013, 09:03:50 AM

Could a couple of people post what type of thumb drives they've gotten to work with BAMT? I'm on my fourth thumb drive on two different systems and still no love.

I've been using SanDisk Cruzer 2GB sticks, I've had 1 go bad out of 12 over the past 2 years or so. Using mostly ASUS and MSI motherboards.

Joshwaa

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Patriot XT 2.0 and 3.0 work great.

nightengale

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Could a couple of people post what type of thumb drives they've gotten to work with BAMT? I'm on my fourth thumb drive on two different systems and still no love.

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Quote from: nightengale on May 20, 2013, 07:11:21 AM

Did anyone ever come up with a solution for this error at startup:

startpar: service(s) returned failure: gdm ... failed!

Try creating a new USB stick. If it still occurs, most likely a hardware problem.

nightengale

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Did anyone ever come up with a solution for this error at startup:

startpar: service(s) returned failure: gdm ... failed!

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I can donate 1 BTC for a Litecoin version. Grin

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