Topic: How to bypass ""Cannot find Signature" when updating your antminer firmware. - page 2. (Read 2346 times)

Does that firmware also disable ssh? That's their new method, signature + disabling SSH.

-j

update:

The new 2019 firmware for S9 also has this Signature restriction.

reference:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50535225

did you face any troubles along the way? glad it worked out for you.

I used this method on a used L3+ I just got off eBay.  Great instructions, thanks for laying it out.

Awesome, I'm glad this worked out. I went ahead and created two boot images, one for the mini and one for the large which can be used to install Fuddware 2.1d in the future -- skipping the V9->upgrade step. It's now posted at https://releases.broked.net and can be used in place of the V9/Z9/Z9miniv2 images listed at bitmain's website.

-j

THX, Everything turned out as you said.

Your miner is showing the “November” build I guess. Use the sdcard recovery steps (google it) and then install a non locked firmware of your choice, mine from my signature or someone else's, as the last step (step #10 - unnumbered on the page below).

documentation: https://support.bitmain.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006020914-Z9-V9-Z9-Mini-Control-Board-Program-Recovery



-j

Hi, everybody. And that to do if I have on all miners z9 closed all ports except 4028?

True, you can just follow the Bitmain recovery until they update the recovery image on their site. I had this one already put together for a guy.

LOL... OR, just follow the standard bitmain recovery instructions, but load the firmware of your choice instead of theirs as the last step.

I've already gone though and checked the various bitmain loader images a couple of days ago to make sure they do not have signature checking in them instead of making one-off images for a bunch of things.

-j

For the ANtminer D3 I have created a SD loader for the Blissz v1.1 Dev-Free. This will load Blissz firmware and get rid of the signature checking. If you have other miners you need a similar files for pm me and I will see what I can get together for you to get past the SSH disable and Signature checking.

How to use.....

1) Unpack the files to a SD-Card
2) Power off miner
3) Insert SD-Card into miners SD Slot
4) Power miner back on
5) Wait about 3-5 minutes for the miner to boot and load Blissz v1.1 to the miner
6) Power off miner and remove the SD-Card
7) Power miner back on and enjoy Blissz v1.1 Dev-Free

You can download the Antminer D3 file here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xVhPqAsRz3SW2kmWFEKdV8CuIYQkuglO/view?usp=sharing


If you find this file helpful please make a donation to my Dash wallet -     Xrf1K1vDwY9RoqrEJGABJMR8sbDHtWaxQy
or if you prefer Zcash -   t1e4Dmr5RBgnWqTN2mAmZ6JzGavW7qxA4P1

forgot to write to press esc after modification.......save with :wq does not works

Glad this worked out for you as well, did you face any difficulties? was the guide easy enough to follow? please let me know if you think i need to clear out any of the steps.

Thanks.

bitmange is getting trickier in that they are also disabling SSH in their latest firmwares....

-j

The only available L3+ firmware on Bitmain's site is: Antminer-L3+-201811131346-384M.tar.gz
If you update to it it adds the "Cannot find Signature" so no going back or going to Bliss.

I suspect that any Bitmain firmware for any miner from Nov/Dec 18 that says "Security Firmware, Fix some security vulnerabilities"
blocks unauthorized firmware, and rolling back to previous firmware.
Even resetting does not get around it.
 
Thanks for this work around.   

-M

This worked for my L3+ that was on the blissz FW then downgraded to the L3++ FW from Bitmain, then back to Blissz.  After downgrading to L3++ I got the signature not found and did the above to fix.

Thank you!

the once i am aware of are the D3 and the L3 as well as the L3++. but if i am not mistaken i have read someone had a problem with his S9 when trying to flush Briiins fw.

i hope other members will confirm about other miners.

the strange thing is even in D3 and L3, not all batches have this stupid signature check.

Nice digging.

That's a quite simple if-function they have there for the signature check.

mikeywith - do you know which miners are doing this now?

I'd be tempted to release a version of each that doesn't have this crap in it -- it's a ridiculously stupid check they've implemented. Their software prowess is sad.

-j

A few days ago, one member on forum asked how to bypass the ""Cannot find Signature" as he was trying to update his D3 miner, while this still applies to BTC miners too, so i decied to make this topic on this board, if the mods feel like it belongs to alts, please move it.


the initial thread to the guy's question can be found here > https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cannot-find-signature-whats-this-5088793

i gave him the soluation in step-by-step manner, so it's kinda hard to follow the whole process frorm the topic, as there were a couple of different posts, so what i am going to do here is basically combine the whole steps into 1 to make it easier to follow, if you want to check how did that guy do it and what difficulites he faced you can refer to the topic, also i would like to acknowledge that i used this russian website to learn about this method and it's only fair to post the link even if you can't read russian , i still feel the need for giving credit to the author.

https://forum.bits.media/index.php?/topic/65678-%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F-antminer-l3-%D0%BE%D1%82-blissz/&page=5&tab=comments#comment-1703686

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lets start.

1- you will need to use a ssh tool like putty.

2-type the ip address of the miner in putty , keep port 22

* if message pop up > click Yes

3-username :root
  password:admin

then you will be inside the miner.

4-copy paste this line

    > hit enter

like this



5-type this



6-use the down arrow and find this code



7-click "i" on your keyboard to enter Edit Mode

8- change the code in step 6 to this code

" you don't have to delete or add any code, reffer to the comment below the code to understand more.



"add # to the first 15 lines, and remove # from the next 5 lines"

* adding # meaning the line is commented aka won't be executed, so what you doing is simply making the miner ignore that IF function that looks for the signature.

after you are done editing the code, hit ESC key (escape) on your keyboard

9-type


and hit Enter > this code is to save and exist the upgrate file.

10-type

and hit Enter > to exist the SSH session.

11-flush the new firmware.


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*do this at your own risk

if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Good luck.