Topic: complete CD/USB/PXE bootable p2pool miner - p2pcoin (Read 24232 times)

is this project still alive?

0.7.0 released

bitcoin upgraded to 0.8.6
bfgminer upgraded to 3.8.1
p2pool upgraded to 0.13.4
some little extras

This might be too big for a CD.  Let me know if it is and I'll do another round of housecleaning.

Will launch my seed in 2 hrs.

I'm stuck at 40%. Can someone please seed? I have two VPS's with a ton (≈2 TB each) of bandwidth that can seed for a while once I get it.

I'll be using the magnet link rav3n_pl posted.

Magnets not need any .torrent hosting
Added few open trackers and there it is:

I use old school command line torrent programs for this stuff.  They don't understand magnets.

But I'm not sure why you'd need a magnet anyway.  Are you having problems downloading the .torrent file?

Add magnet link pls?

0.6.4 has been released.  The initial post has been updated with a link to the torrent, and 2 seeders are already active.

It includes bitcoind 0.8.3 for lower latency, p2pool 13.0 for the new hardfork, and bfgminer 3.1.1 for better PGA/ASIC support.

I've been running mine with ASICMiner USB sticks since Friday, and it works great.

Sorry for the delay.

You could try grabbing a newer driver and installing it.  If you use persistent storage, it should keep working across reboots.

I'm super busy in real life right now (buying a house and moving), and I actually build this on a slackware box, so I don't have access to any nice tools for package management, so swapping out the driver is a labor intensive process for me.  I've also heard that the newer drivers aren't as good for older cards, so I might end up having to support two versions.

In late May, or maybe even June, I might be able to do this, but probably not much sooner.  Honestly, I was sorta hoping that ASICs would take off before anyone asked for something like this. 

You have to configure your DNS Server to point to a config.txt file url where your settings are configured.
Read the first two or three posts from kjj in this thread. That makes thinks clear.

Still need help with my HD7770 cards. No ideas?

how do you mine with this? i booted the CD now what?

Hm. No Reply?

Any idea how to update the driver myself in a live linux image?

Can you add AMD Drivers that support 7770 and 7970 devices please?

Would love to hear from you.

Version 0.6 released.

Lots of little changes, and a few big ones.

Biggest one is BFGminer.  The BFG configuration file is built on startup.  This means that it won't stay across reboots if you have persistent storage.  I use PXE in diskless machines, so I didn't notice this one yesterday.  If there are other misc BFG options that anyone wants the ability to adjust, let me know.

The old BACKUP_POOL= and TEMP_POOL= lines from your config are now the last places in the BFG pool list.  First place is localhost, and you can fill in between them with PEER[0-9]= lines.  I run a small cluster of boxes, each with 1-3 cards.  Now they can all fail over to each other, and the backup pool should only get hit if they are all booting at the same time.  It also means that you can use the same image and configuration for a mining-only box if you don't have enough RAM or flash to run a full bitcoind node.

The heartbeat script now pulls hashing rate from the BFG api instead of from p2pool.  The script isn't very clever, and just reports them in the order given by the BFG api.  It'll need some work before it can properly handle mixed-platform mining rigs.

The old restart logic was per-card and has been disabled.  BFG should recover from single card failures.  If you have external monitoring, that can handle whole-box failures.  In the next release, I'll fix the restart script to restart BFG to handle the odd cases where the BFG process has failed without crashing the whole box.

I also added packages for PHP5-cli and TOR.  I don't think that PHP works yet, and I haven't even tried TOR.  These are mostly included so that I can play with them on my own personal boxes.

There is actually a 0.4.3 version that is on the fixed version of p2pool.

http://www.jerviss.org/bitcointalk.org/p2pcoin/

I haven't posted them here because they also have version 0.6.2 of bitcoind, which has problems.  My understanding was that the version of p2pool that was included in 0.4.1 wasn't the version causing problems on the network.  Let me know if I'm wrong about that.  I'll try to spin up a 0.6.99 setup for testing before the weekend too.

P.S.  My 4 nodes of p2pcoin are all running 0.4.3, which has the 3.1 release of p2pool.  I suspect that my nodes represent a decent fraction of all p2pcoin nodes in the world.

Plz update P2pool to fresh version
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/1500-th-p2pool-decentralized-dos-resistant-hop-proof-pool-18313

Recently made a move so took awhile to set things back up, sorry about that.

Tried out the new 4.1 version and now it tells me that I need more persistent storage or RAM to run.  The system  I'm testing it on has 4GB of RAM.

I'll try to find some time tomorrow to test on my main system with 16GB of RAM.

Edit:

On my main machine it failed to boot for some reason:

Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

I suspect this is a separate error not related to problems with p2pcoin software.  I'll do some more testing and report back if I can get it up and running.

My turn to apologize for the delay.  I've been out of town a lot over the last week or so.

When it says it loses connection to the server, can you start a new terminal and see if bitcoind is still running?

Even better, try 0.4.1.  I think you may have been running out of memory.  If that was the problem, 0.4.1 should fix it.

0.4.1 is out.  It includes the 0.11.2 p2pool release, as well as some improvements when setting up the RAM disks.

If you have persistent storage, you can run with as little as 2 GB RAM (maybe less, but I don't have anything smaller to test with).  It will still try to use RAM for running bitcoind if you have at least 4 GB, and for namecoind if you have at least 6 GB.

If you have no persistent storage and are running entirely in RAM, you now need a bare minimum of 4 GB.  With less than 4 GB, it will start the temporary miners and just leave them running.  With 4 GB, it will start bitcoind and p2pool in RAM and run them.  With 6 GB or more, it will also start namecoind for merged mining.

The TEMP_POOL and BACKUP_POOL options will now translate __CARD_ID__ into the Radeon ID # for each card when it starts phoenix, so you can configure different workers for each card, if you want to.

Sorry for the long delay.

I've been running into some trouble.

First off all my successful boots into the program are for the "Default" option in the boot selection screen.  I still get "Invalid or corrupt kernel image" for he p2pcoin option.

My first few attempts to let the system catch up to the latest namecoin block resulted in the LXTerminal notifying me that it lost connection to the server.  When restarting the program I have to start the updating process over.

I ended up trying the newest 0.4v on another USB stick and this time caught up to the latest namecoin block then it began updating to the latest bitcoin block and it again ended up losing connection to the server.

I don't believe it is any issue with the network connection since throughout this whole process I can browse the internet just fine with Chromium.

Any ideas what may be going wrong?

Edit:  I've also tested this on a few different machines with different hardware setups, they all end up with the same issue.