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Yes, it is possible to generate an ISO image. However, this leaves you without the read/write partition which is essentially not usable for BAMT. Experiments with unetbootin seem to show that it doesn't help. Bootable without rw partition works, with it fails. Another guy found a way to use Plop to boot BAMT, but it requires 2 usb keys, he couldn't find a way to do it with one. I guess if you dont mind using 2 keys per board then there is the solution.
Best to not purchase these boards. If you have one, contact the manufacturer and demand they fix this bug. It effects a wide range of things, not just BAMT.. google for their part #s and usb boot and you will see tons of people are frustrated with this.
I'm interested in the solution for the 2 USB keys. You have any link? info? I found information about this bug since 2008. A lot of people complained, and Gigabyte doesn't give a damn about it. I'm not going to buy one of their boards again. Thanks for the detailed answer! |
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lodcrappo (OP)
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February 01, 2012, 06:50:17 PM |
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Yes, it is possible to generate an ISO image. However, this leaves you without the read/write partition which is essentially not usable for BAMT. Experiments with unetbootin seem to show that it doesn't help. Bootable without rw partition works, with it fails. Another guy found a way to use Plop to boot BAMT, but it requires 2 usb keys, he couldn't find a way to do it with one. I guess if you dont mind using 2 keys per board then there is the solution.
Best to not purchase these boards. If you have one, contact the manufacturer and demand they fix this bug. It effects a wide range of things, not just BAMT.. google for their part #s and usb boot and you will see tons of people are frustrated with this.
I'm interested in the solution for the 2 USB keys. You have any link? info? I found information about this bug since 2008. A lot of people complained, and Gigabyte doesn't give a damn about it. I'm not going to buy one of their boards again. Thanks for the detailed answer! It was a guy in IRC, maybe he reads these and can add some detail. unfortunately I don't know much more other than he used PloP to do it. |
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JWU42
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February 01, 2012, 08:18:10 PM |
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Wanting to try a 3x5970 and 2x5870 rig this evening and now read it probably won't work (8 GPUs). Bummer...
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lodcrappo (OP)
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February 01, 2012, 08:24:08 PM |
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Wanting to try a 3x5970 and 2x5870 rig this evening and now read it probably won't work (8 GPUs). Bummer...
The imminent new version does support 8 gpus. It is being tested by several volunteers as we speak and provided they have good results it will be available quite soon. PM me for download details if you want to try the prerelease image. |
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February 01, 2012, 10:51:21 PM |
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gpumon (and all of the BAMT tools) require ADL support, hence the results you are seeing.
Hmm so wonder why ADL isn't working. Cards show up in aticonfig --list-adapters. Weird. |
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lodcrappo (OP)
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February 01, 2012, 10:56:38 PM |
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gpumon (and all of the BAMT tools) require ADL support, hence the results you are seeing.
Hmm so wonder why ADL isn't working. Cards show up in aticonfig --list-adapters. Weird. usually because xorg.conf isn't right. try rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf sync;coldreboot might help. |
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digger
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February 02, 2012, 03:02:17 AM |
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Donated 0.5BTC to support your work.
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Interesting.
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February 02, 2012, 09:09:38 AM |
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Hey! Thank you  I did not forget, will send 10 BTC on sunday  |
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February 02, 2012, 10:28:19 AM |
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So it is decided ?
64bit only BAMT from now on ?
Thanks !
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lodcrappo (OP)
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February 02, 2012, 10:34:33 AM |
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So it is decided ?
64bit only BAMT from now on ?
Thanks !
no, it is not decided. however, it looks more likely to go that way. if anyone has compelling reasons to go one way or the other, time to let us know. in any event, the 0.4 line is done, or nearly done. future work will be on the 0.5 line, regardless of 32/64. |
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February 02, 2012, 02:55:08 PM |
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I'll be donating some bitcoins as soon as I have some... BAMT is the only thing that has let me use both of my 5970 gpus successfully Thank you |
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lodcrappo (OP)
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February 04, 2012, 04:53:29 AM |
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fix 29 is Phoenix 1.7.5
actually adds a couple mhash/s on my test rig. good stuff.
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February 04, 2012, 02:22:29 PM |
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OK. Looking forward to the release of the new BAMT image. Thank you for all the work lordcrappo !
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February 04, 2012, 05:40:23 PM |
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Is there a way from boot up i can add the mgpumon...
i have this pc setup as my main hub but it gets shutdown and i want it.
were you just turn it on and auto runs the web site for me..
as of now i have to have monitor connected and run terminal window with this line:
mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf
thanks,
jay
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February 04, 2012, 06:23:32 PM |
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Is there a way from boot up i can add the mgpumon...
i have this pc setup as my main hub but it gets shutdown and i want it.
were you just turn it on and auto runs the web site for me..
as of now i have to have monitor connected and run terminal window with this line:
mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf
thanks,
jay
Yeah, that would be cool to be able to just add a line in bamt.conf like do_mgpumon: 1 Something that would be read when you start/stop mining so it's easy to enable/disable. |
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lodcrappo (OP)
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February 04, 2012, 06:32:12 PM |
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Is there a way from boot up i can add the mgpumon...
i have this pc setup as my main hub but it gets shutdown and i want it.
were you just turn it on and auto runs the web site for me..
as of now i have to have monitor connected and run terminal window with this line:
mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf
thanks,
jay
Yeah, that would be cool to be able to just add a line in bamt.conf like do_mgpumon: 1 Something that would be read when you start/stop mining so it's easy to enable/disable. there is already a setting for this in the v0.5 test build. however, the "normal" way to make any linux box do something when it boots will work fine too. just edit /etc/rc.local and add anything you'd like to start when the machine boots. |
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February 04, 2012, 06:35:27 PM |
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Is there a way from boot up i can add the mgpumon...
i have this pc setup as my main hub but it gets shutdown and i want it.
were you just turn it on and auto runs the web site for me..
as of now i have to have monitor connected and run terminal window with this line:
mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf
thanks,
jay
Yeah, that would be cool to be able to just add a line in bamt.conf like do_mgpumon: 1 Something that would be read when you start/stop mining so it's easy to enable/disable. there is already a setting for this in the v0.5 test build. however, the "normal" way to make any linux box do something when it boots will work fine too. just edit /etc/rc.local and add anything you'd like to start when the machine boots. And then to stop it just kill the process? |
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February 04, 2012, 06:36:11 PM |
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Is there a way from boot up i can add the mgpumon...
i have this pc setup as my main hub but it gets shutdown and i want it.
were you just turn it on and auto runs the web site for me..
as of now i have to have monitor connected and run terminal window with this line:
mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf
thanks,
jay
Yeah, that would be cool to be able to just add a line in bamt.conf like do_mgpumon: 1 Something that would be read when you start/stop mining so it's easy to enable/disable. there is already a setting for this in the v0.5 test build. however, the "normal" way to make any linux box do something when it boots will work fine too. just edit /etc/rc.local and add anything you'd like to start when the machine boots. And then to stop it just kill the process? i guess, but why would you stop it? |
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February 04, 2012, 06:43:14 PM |
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Is there a way from boot up i can add the mgpumon...
i have this pc setup as my main hub but it gets shutdown and i want it.
were you just turn it on and auto runs the web site for me..
as of now i have to have monitor connected and run terminal window with this line:
mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf
thanks,
jay
Yeah, that would be cool to be able to just add a line in bamt.conf like do_mgpumon: 1 Something that would be read when you start/stop mining so it's easy to enable/disable. there is already a setting for this in the v0.5 test build. however, the "normal" way to make any linux box do something when it boots will work fine too. just edit /etc/rc.local and add anything you'd like to start when the machine boots. And then to stop it just kill the process? i guess, but why would you stop it? There have been times that when something has changed, like a miner_id, that it keeps that hanging around sometimes on the console output and mgpumon web, and I have found restarting (on the command line) seemed to clear it up. That would be my only reason to need to restart. (I.E. Kill the process) |
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