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

[mc_lovin]

quick question for ya:

got a 7970, set it up, got bamt working and it's mining right now.

sort of a noobish question, but where is the cgminer.conf file?  i can see it hashing in gpumon I just don't know how to change the cgminer settings.

You can put the cgminer.conf anywhere you want.

I put mine in /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf and then put this in /etc/bamt/bamt.conf

Code:

settings:
    cgminer_opts: --config /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf

You can attach to the screen session and do most of the settings from inside cgminer and then save the config to get yourself started

Ah thanks so much!  How do I attach to the screen session?

[Red Emerald]

quick question for ya:

got a 7970, set it up, got bamt working and it's mining right now.

sort of a noobish question, but where is the cgminer.conf file?  i can see it hashing in gpumon I just don't know how to change the cgminer settings.

You can put the cgminer.conf anywhere you want.

I put mine in /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf and then put this in /etc/bamt/bamt.conf

Code:

settings:
    cgminer_opts: --config /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf

You can attach to the screen session and do most of the settings from inside cgminer and then save the config to get yourself started

Ah thanks so much!  How do I attach to the screen session?

Code:

screen -r

You should read up on screen first.

I actually ended up going back to phoenix instead of cgminer.  I get less rejects and a higher hash rate.

[mc_lovin]

quick question for ya:

got a 7970, set it up, got bamt working and it's mining right now.

sort of a noobish question, but where is the cgminer.conf file?  i can see it hashing in gpumon I just don't know how to change the cgminer settings.

You can put the cgminer.conf anywhere you want.

I put mine in /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf and then put this in /etc/bamt/bamt.conf

Code:

settings:
    cgminer_opts: --config /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf

You can attach to the screen session and do most of the settings from inside cgminer and then save the config to get yourself started

Ah thanks so much!  How do I attach to the screen session?

Code:

screen -r

You should read up on screen first.

I actually ended up going back to phoenix instead of cgminer.  I get less rejects and a higher hash rate.

yeah I got cgminer working with ubuntu and i was disapointed with the hashrate.  this is more-or-less an experiment, but it's coming along nicely!

edit: but yes, the screen -r command does wonders! 

having an issue where i set the core frequency to say,  800mhz, and it says "driver reports success but see below" and it's running at 300mhz core.  i'm still tinkering with it, did a coldreboot, see how it likes that. 

in the bamt.conf, there are values to set for core and memory, are these ignored when cgminer is at the wheel?

[cmg5461]

I have a tiny suggestion, but would it be possible to have mother ping the first choice in the pool file when mining on a backup?  It would be great to have the process automated

[Red Emerald]

in the bamt.conf, there are values to set for core and memory, are these ignored when cgminer is at the wheel?

When I was using cgminer, I removed all of those lines from my bamt.conf and did everything in cgminer.conf

[CrazyGuy]

With a hint from lodcrappo in an earlier post, I've got BAMT working on an unsupported gigabyte motherboard(990fxa-UD3). I've loaded plopkexec boot manager on a second usb drive(could be loaded on cd or floppy as well) and set it as the default boot device in the bios. Plopkexec auto-detects BAMT on my second drive and I can select and boot into BAMT. Now I've got to figure out how to configure the boot manager to auto boot into a distribution so I can set up my headless miner.

http://www.plop.at/en/plopkexec.html

[mc_lovin]

OK I have prepared an iso to make booting on gigabyte motherboards possible, see my post here:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1149#msg1149

[Joshwaa]

OK I have prepared an iso to make booting on gigabyte motherboards possible, see my post here:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1149#msg1149

Could u make an iso for bamt that has 7970 support out of the box?

[mc_lovin]

OK I have prepared an iso to make booting on gigabyte motherboards possible, see my post here:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1149#msg1149

Could u make an iso for bamt that has 7970 support out of the box?

ask lodcrappo

[01BTC10]

OK I have prepared an iso to make booting on gigabyte motherboards possible, see my post here:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1149#msg1149

Good work! Will test very soon!

[Joshwaa]

OK I have prepared an iso to make booting on gigabyte motherboards possible, see my post here:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1149#msg1149

Could u make an iso for bamt that has 7970 support out of the box?

ask lodcrappo

I am pretty sure I already asked.

[TheHarbinger]

By adding support for 7000 series cards (updating the SDK) you kill the hashrate on all 5000 series cards.  And since most the mining on GPUs is done on 5000 series cards it turns out to be not such a good idea for most BAMT users.

Perhaps since all you 7000 series card users are crapping out $600 a card, you guys should come up with a bounty for someone, or even lodcrappo, to do a BAMT split with the newer SDK.

But to be honest, why don't you guys just update the SDK on your existing BAMT image?
http://developer.amd.com/sdks/amdappsdk/assets/AMD_APP_SDK_Installation_Notes.pdf

[jamesg]

Perhaps since all you 7000 series card users are crapping out $600 a card, you guys should come up with a bounty for someone, or even lodcrappo, to do a BAMT split with the newer SDK.

I donate to lodcrappo to get ANYTHING done in BAMT. Guess what..... it now has everything I need.

This is definitely a good strategy.

[CrazyGuy]

OK I have prepared an iso to make booting on gigabyte motherboards possible, see my post here:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1149#msg1149

Doesn't work for me, hangs at loading plpbt.bin. This is the same thing I get when trying to boot from usb via the standard plop boot manager GUI. (plopKexec works for me though) Can you give us some insight on the settings you used building the plop boot manager iso?

[mc_lovin]

OK I have prepared an iso to make booting on gigabyte motherboards possible, see my post here:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1149#msg1149

Doesn't work for me, hangs at loading plpbt.bin. This is the same thing I get when trying to boot from usb via the standard plop boot manager GUI. (plopKexec works for me though) Can you give us some insight on the settings you used building the plop boot manager iso?

Damn!  I thought it would have worked for all situations.  I made it like 2 weeks ago and it works wonders with the 990FXA-UD3, I can't really remember what settings I used, if the plop GUI dies for you then chances are this will too, since it's just the menu but without a menu, it is just set to boot from USB at boot.  Which board do you have?

[pcexpress4less]

With a hint from lodcrappo in an earlier post, I've got BAMT working on an unsupported gigabyte motherboard(990fxa-UD3). I've loaded plopkexec boot manager on a second usb drive(could be loaded on cd or floppy as well) and set it as the default boot device in the bios. Plopkexec auto-detects BAMT on my second drive and I can select and boot into BAMT. Now I've got to figure out how to configure the boot manager to auto boot into a distribution so I can set up my headless miner.

http://www.plop.at/en/plopkexec.html

Plopkexec boot manager is also working for my Gigabyte 990fxa-UD3. I will try your iso next and share the results . I'm just now trying out BAMT and this was a big issue as I have several of these boards. I didn't get a answer back from Gigabyte as for when they intend to solve the bios boot problem. If they ever do. Off topic but does anyone know how to get mgpumon web interface to stop showing old miner names and stats?

[CrazyGuy]

OK I have prepared an iso to make booting on gigabyte motherboards possible, see my post here:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1149#msg1149

Doesn't work for me, hangs at loading plpbt.bin. This is the same thing I get when trying to boot from usb via the standard plop boot manager GUI. (plopKexec works for me though) Can you give us some insight on the settings you used building the plop boot manager iso?

Damn!  I thought it would have worked for all situations.  I made it like 2 weeks ago and it works wonders with the 990FXA-UD3, I can't really remember what settings I used, if the plop GUI dies for you then chances are this will too, since it's just the menu but without a menu, it is just set to boot from USB at boot.  Which board do you have?

Same board actually. I do have about 3 hdd in this machine, I wonder if standard plop bootmgr has an issue with multiple devices? I spent some time last night trying to read through the documentation to manually set the device ID but doc is written in pretty bad english. Curious to see if it works for the other guy with the UD3.

[Definit]

Off topic but does anyone know how to get mgpumon web interface to stop showing old miner names and stats?

you try restarting your main rig that displays mgpumon?

[JL421]

I have an odd issue...whenever I try to define a

cgminer_opts: --config /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf

CGMiner never starts...if I put my options directly into the line it works flawlessly every time.

[likuidxd]

Has anyone yet been able to get 8 gpus going in BAMT?