BAMT version 0.5 - Easy USB based mining Linux with farm wide management tools

[BitMinerN8]

way too long of a thread,lol, but got a couple questions:

1. Is there any way to do a hard *restart*? whenever i do a reboot from bamt, it doesnt actually completely restart the miner, only logs out, then logs back in, so if one of the GPUs freezes for some reason, and i try a restart, it will just go back into BAMT like it was when i first installed it and wont do anything unless i go and actually jump the RST pins on the mobo. Then everything returns to normal.

2. I have 3 miners with BAMT, is there an easy way to monitor them all from another PC on the same network? like a MGPUMON Windows tool? what about from outside the network? my miners are at my warehouse and i want to be able to monitor them from home without having to use teamviewer to remote control a pc on the same network then type in the 192.168.*.* number from that PC.

Thx for the help
BTW im mining LTC if that matters

Another option for remote which I have used in the past was to port forward to a specific rig. First you will need to setup DHCP reservations in the router for each rig so they always get the same IP. Then pick a port for each rig on the router like 11001 and forward to port 22 on the rig, for the next rig use 11002 forward to 22, next rig 11003, etc.

You could also do that with the web interface if you want too, make it like 11081 in the router, forward to port 80 on the rig, etc.

Then when you are remote, just connect to your public IP on that specific port assigned per rig and it sends it to the assigned rig on the standard port. This makes it easy so that you are not modifying the BAMT network configuration, the work is being done in the router. Feel free to pick whatever ports you want, but always send them to the standard port internally. Just make sure you use strong passwords.

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[boozer]

You could try to add forcefsck to /live/image/syslinux/live.cfg file.
So something like:

label live
        menu label Boot the BAMT
        kernel /live/vmlinuz
        append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live config persistent splash vga=0x317 hostname=bamt-miner  quiet forcefsck

(or fsck.mode=force)

Not sure how exactly fastboot is enabled in BAMT so it still might not work.
Eventually (as an ugly hack) you could modify /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh

       if [ -f /fastboot ] || grep -s -w -i "fastboot" /proc/cmdline
        then
                [ "$fscheck" = yes ] && log_warning_msg "Fast boot enabled, so skipping file system check."
                fscheck=yes

EDIT:  No luck with the "ugly hack" yet

[philips]

Great 

[boozer]

Great  

Spoke too soon... still has errors    If I move it to a different machine and fsck -y the volume then its fine.... is there something I'm missing? One of the rigs wouldnt boot, I got on console and it said the file system /dev/sda2 was mounted and wanted a ctrl-d to continue, not sure why the same thing didnt happen on the others I tried... The others rebooted fine, but still had disk errors... sigh

[christov84]

Hey guys,

Im getting the dreaded:

cant mount /dev/sda2 on /cow error... Dont get it because the USB should just mount with no issue...?

Anyone help?

[abracadabra]

Hey guys,

Im getting the dreaded:

cant mount /dev/sda2 on /cow error... Dont get it because the USB should just mount with no issue...?

Anyone help?

image a new usb

[kano]

Hey guys,

Im getting the dreaded:

cant mount /dev/sda2 on /cow error... Dont get it because the USB should just mount with no issue...?

Anyone help?

image a new usb

Or fsck the old one manually

[Mu3aHTP0n]

Hello! How can I update BAMT 0.5c ATI drivers to 12.11?
Thanx and congradulations Sysadmin's day.

[CoinBuzz]

Since the official domain for this project dropped,

Is This project continuing or discontinued ?

[Deafboy]

Since all the mirrors are down, I have decided to upload my copy rescued from old hdd backup.
It will take few hours to upload

Code:

[deafboy@Planetexpress Download]$ md5sum bamt_v0.5c.zip
1da3d70d0c4a1c4f44f6870772aad26d  bamt_v0.5c.zip
[deafboy@Planetexpress Download]$ ls -la bamt_v0.5c.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 deafboy deafboy 531867918 mar  5  2012 bamt_v0.5c.zip
[deafboy@Planetexpress Download]$

Download here

I'm unable to upload it. My DSL connection crash every time I try. :/

[blazin8s]

Where can I download this or is there something newer out now?  Every link everywhere seems to be dead.

[BitMinerN8]

Where can I download this or is there something newer out now?  Every link everywhere seems to be dead.

I think they stuck a fork in it long time ago. It's dead Jim.

[devthedev]

What a shame, this is a pretty slick project.

[BitMinerN8]

What a shame, this is a pretty slick project.

Oh yeah, pre-FPGA days it was the cat's meow. Mined like 600+ BTC back in the day on the old BAMT Farm. But back then the reward was 50 and we were pulling like 4-5 BTC a day. Ahh the good old days with a mere 15GHs GPU farm. Donated like 200+ to the cause, sure hope he kept some of those.

[lodcrappo]

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    BAMT development has suffered a fatal error.

Defiled:  Unable to record this travesty in the deathlog!  Why?: Permission denied

[BitMinerN8]

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    BAMT development has suffered a fatal error.

Defiled:  Unable to record this travesty in the deathlog!  Why?: Permission denied

Awesome! FTW!

[abracadabra]

BAMT still humming away for me! 

Got it chugging away mining LTC.

[blazin8s]

Could someone upload for us to download?

Or if not, what is the next best thing?  which distro?  I want remote control from my phone and rock solid stability.

[BitMinerN8]

Could someone upload for us to download?

Or if not, what is the next best thing?  which distro?  I want remote control from my phone and rock solid stability.

I'll upload to MEGA, but this is just for "historical reference", there is zero warranty of any kind. You're on your own to read through the forum posts to glean whatever nugget of help you can find. I'll post the link when it's finished.

[BitMinerN8]

Could someone upload for us to download?

Or if not, what is the next best thing?  which distro?  I want remote control from my phone and rock solid stability.

I'll upload to MEGA, but this is just for "historical reference", there is zero warranty of any kind. You're on your own to read through the forum posts to glean whatever nugget of help you can find. I'll post the link when it's finished.

Here is the BAMT Archive: https://mega.co.nz/#F!lEUjTRCL!dGkwuX0ULQcEkjFNcQuo9w
There are three files in the archive, as far as I know the last supported version was bamt_v0.5c.rar, I would start there.
bamt64_v05.rar was an 64-bit experiment, might be of some use for someone. b06_test02.rar was a beta of 0.6, but support and interest waned and it was never officially released IIRC. So it is what is, these are more for educational use.

And remember, if you find use of this stuff do still donate to @lodcrappo as this was his project.