Worker installation and setup
Hiveon OS is an all-in-one monitoring and management tool for your mining rigs. Whether its a single rig or several thousands, you and your team can easily manage them all from a single dashboard.
In this article we’ll walk you through the first time installation process and explain what different installation types there are, and how to easily set up your rigs and connect them to your account dashboard.
Creating an account
Before installing Hiveon OS on your rig, we recommend creating an account first, or logging into your existing one. Make sure to create a secure password.
We strongly suggest setting up Two Factor Authentication (2FA) for additional account security. You can find these settings by clicking on your user name in the top right corner and then going to the Account tab. Scroll down to the Two-factor Authentication option and switch 2FA on. Then follow the onscreen instructions carefully.
Adding workers
As soon as you’re done with setting up your account, it’s time to connect your rigs to the dashboard. GPU rigs and ASICs are uniformly referred to as workers. You will have two options of connecting your workers, via Farm Hash or via manual setup. Farm Hash is used for connecting your workers to a Farm without pre-creating the rig in the dashboard. This is our new and fast method of connecting a worker to a Farm, so we recommend this setup method for most users.
Farm hash
Each Farm has its unique Farm Hash. You can find your Farm Hash by going to your Farm’s Settings tab. Once you write the installation image, you may then add your FARM_HASH to the rig.conf file which you will find in the root folder of the image. We’ll explain this step in detail below.
Farm Hash can be effectively used with Hive Flasher for bulk rig installations. More details on Hive Flasher are available here.
Manual setup
Users that have previously used Hiveon OS will be familiar with this option of connecting their worker to the dashboard. It involves using a rig ID and a password for each miner to be configured. Although it’s a bit more tedious than connecting workers via Farm Hash, we left it for our old school users’ convenience.
Click on the plus icon on the toolbar and select Add Worker option.
Selecting an installation type
Hiveon OS can be installed on both GPU rigs and ASICs as well. Below we will describe the different types of installations:
- ASIC — installs the OS on ASIC miners
- GPU — installs the OS on GPU based rigs
Downloading the image
Go to the download page to get the latest version of Hiveon OS. You can download the image from our website as a .zip file or via .torrent if you prefer. You will also have the option of downloading Hiveon OS for ASICs or our Bulk Installation tool.
We recommend installing the OS image to an SSD. SSDs are much more reliable and we advise using them in production environments. Because many users still prefer using a USB flash drive, we have the logs turned off by default. If you installed the OS on an SSD, you can optionally turn logging back on by running the logs-on command after installation.
Here is some additional information on flash drives, SSD and HDD: When to use flash drives?: Firstly when you want to test. This is easy, you just grab one you have and in a dozen of minutes you can plug it in and test Hive without ruining your current Windows, for instance. Any flash will work, USB 3.0 is not required. It’s just a matter of boot speed. Then if you are happy with it you can leave it as it is.
The downfalls of using flash pen drives. They are slow to write. Even if it’s 3.0 it still may have slow writes speed line 10-15mbps, while reading can be 60-100mbps. So waste time on writing new images if you have a lot of rigs.
They can work like forever or die in few days. Some show you corrupt file system with messages like this: 
Some even fail to boot.
But what is great about the flash drives is that they are cheap. You can buy a bucket of them and just throw them out when they fail.
But if your location is distant this is not your choice. Go SSD. SSD is the best option. The only bad thing is the price. Probably you can find some cheap on aftermarket.
HDD. This is the option if you just have it and that’s it. The price for 32gb SSD and 200gb HDD is roughly the same and there is no reason you should choose HDD over SSD.
And the last thing. Buy a SSD USB 3.0 pocket or tray to connect it to your computer. 
From version 0.5-30 you can run logs-off to put log in RAM to save your USB flash drive.
And a few more words about common booting problems. In general you just plug your drive in the rig and it goes. But sometimes it just doesn’t. Firstly you should ensure you are not trying to boot from UEFI partition. Some bioses give you this option to choose and you should not do it.
Your USB settings should have Legacy mode On. Like for mouse and keyboard to work at boot time, otherwise USB drive will not be detected. IOMMU might be an issue on some motherboards. Sometimes it’s called CSM (compatibility support module)
When a drive is detected, it starts but fails afterward.
This means some problem with the image written. Usually, it is solved by writing the image with alternative software, like for example:
GPU installation
Writing disk image
You will need to write Hiveon OS image onto an SSD. Although many users prefer to use USB drives, we recommend opting to an SSD instead. Start by extracting the image from the .zip file first and then writing the .img file onto a drive.
Windows user can write the image using HDD Raw Copy Tool, Win32 Disk Imager, Rufus or Etcher.
MacOS and Linux users can do it with ease using Etcher, or several other programs.
After the image is flashed you will discover a newly created drive in your system where you will be able to pre-configure your worker with either Farm Hash or it’s ID and password. Find rig-config-example.txt on HIVE drive and open it with a .txt editor. You can use the integrated text editors on Windows, MacOS and Linux or download a free alternative. For example, Notepad++ for Windows or Sublime Text for MacOS and Linux.
Now choose one of the two options below:
Optional step — Farm hash
Once the image copy is complete, you can go to your drive in Windows, Linux or Mac and find rig-config-example.txt file in the root folder. Here’s how it looks:
The contents of rig-config-example.txt file
Enter your Farm Hash in the FARM_HASH= field by copying the value from your Settings tab. Here’s how the field should look like:
No need to set RIG_ID or RIG_PASSWD in this case. That’s it, just save your config file and rename it into rig.conf . Proceed by finishing the image installation and boot your worker. It will connect to the dashboard automatically.
Optional step — Manual setup
Once the image copy is complete, you can go to your drive in Windows, Linux or Mac and find rig-config-example.txt file in the root folder. Here’s how it looks:
The contents of rig-config-example.txt file
Find and fill in the two fields:
That’s it, just save your config file and rename it into rig.conf. Proceed by finishing the image installation and boot your worker. It will connect to the dashboard automatically.
ASIC installation
Before proceeding with installation, make sure that your ASIC miner is supported. Check out the up-to-date list of the supported models here.
Installation
Remotely connect to your worker using SSH. You can do it with Teleconsole. Teleconsole is an SSH tunnel to your rig. In few words you start it on the rig and open SSH in browser or in Linux/Mac console. Does not require any VPN or being in local network. To start it run telec start with Linux Shell Execute on web. Then copy-paste the given link to the browser. Or run teleconsole join <given id> on your Linux/Mac terminal. Run telec to see if it’s running, check other commands like stop , log open .
Security
Teleconsole IS NOT started automatically. You need to start it from web. Given session ID is almost impossible to guess, it’s alsmost like to guess a private key for your Bitcoin wallet. Treat it like a random login and password.
If you don’t connect for 60 minutes the link will expire and Teleconsole Daemon will be terminated on the rig.
After you are done with Teleconsole run the following command:
cd /tmp && curl -L —insecure -s -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minershive/hiveos-asic/master/hive/bin/selfupgrade && sh selfupgrade
For Antminer D3 Blissz run the following command before installation:
ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4 /usr/lib/libcurl.so.5
Promptless installation
You can use FARM_HASH to add your ASIC workers automatically without entering rig ID and password. Copy your FARM_HASH from the Settings tab of your Farm and enter it into the command line as shown below:
cd /tmp && curl -L —insecure -s -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minershive/hiveos-asic/master/hive/bin/selfupgrade && FARM_HASH=your_hash_from_web sh selfupgrade
Replace the your_hash_from_web with your FARM_HASH .
For more details regarding ASIC installation, please refer to this GitHub page.
Getting Started with Hive OS — Worker Installation and Setup
Hive OS is an all-in-one monitoring and management tool for your mining rigs. Whether its a single rig or several thousands, you and your team can easily manage them all from a single dashboard.
In this article we’ll walk you through the first time installation process and explain what different installation types there are and how to easily set up your rigs and connecting them to your account dashboard.
Creating An Account
Before installing Hive OS on your rig, we recommend creating an account first, or logging into your existing one. Make sure to create a secure password.
We strongly suggest setting up Two Factor Authentication (2FA) for additional account security. You can find these settings by clicking on your user name in the top right corner and then going to the Account tab. Scroll down to the Two-factor Authentication option and switch 2FA on then follow the onscreen instructions carefully.
Adding Your Workers
As soon as you’re done setting up your account, it’s time to connect your rigs to the dashboard. GPU rigs and ASICs are uniformly referred to as workers. You will have two options of connecting your workers, via Farm Hash or via manual setup. Farm Hash is used for connecting your workers to a Farm without pre-creating the rig in the dashboard. This is our new and fast method of connecting a worker to a Farm, so we recommend this setup method for most users. We will go into more details on Farms and how to use them in our next articles.
1. Farm Hash
Each Farm has its unique Farm Hash. You can find your Farm Hash by going to your Farm’s Settings tab. Once you write the installation image, you may then add your FARM_HASH to the rig.conf file which you will find in the root folder of the image. We’ll explain this step in detail below.
Farm Hash can be effectively used with Hive Flasher for bulk rig installations. More details on Hive Flasher are available here.
2. Manual Setup
Users that have previously used Hive OS will be familiar with this option of connecting their worker to the dashboard. It involves using a rig ID and a password for each miner to be configured. Although it’s a bit more tedious than connecting workers via Farm Hash, we left it for our old school users’ convenience.
Click on the plus in the top right corner and choose Add Worker option.
A window, Add New Worker, will pop up with the following fields:
- Choose between GPU or ASIC type.
- Name — your rig name. This can be anything. For example, rig01; garage_rig; etc. or leave it blank.
- Password — your miner’s password. You can enter a convenient password for you, or generate one by clicking the double arrow button instead.
- Tags — custom tags to help you logically separate projects by filters for various farms and workers. Tags can be created by going to the Settings tab.
- Description — your rigs description. This is for your convenience only. For Example: The rig at my parent’s garage; Store room rig; Rig on Park St. 251, that I only use for mining Monero; etc.
- Once done, click the Add button.
You will now see your rig added to the list of workers, but first you will need your rig ID. After you pre-created your worker, you will be forwarded to the worker’s dashboard. Go to the worker’s Settings tab and you should see the rig ID and the Password.
The ID of the rig and the password will be needed during the initial installation and first boot, in case you opted for this option instead of Farm Hash, so we recommend writing it down.
Choosing An Installation Type
Hive OS can be installed on both GPU rigs and ASICs as well.
Below we will describe the different types of installations:
- GPU — installs the OS unto GPU based rigs
- ASIC — installs the OS unto ASIC miners
Downloading The Image
Go to the download page to get the latest version of Hive OS. You can download the image from our website as a .zip file or via .torrent if you prefer. You will also have the option of downloading Hive OS for ASICs or our Bulk Installation tool.
We recommend installing the OS image to an SSD. SSDs are much more reliable and we advise using them in production environments. Because many users still prefer using a USB flash drive, we have the logs turned off by default. If you installed the OS on an SSD, you can optionally turn logging back on by running the logs-on command after installation.
Check the Flash drive, SSD, HDD forum thread for additional information and also visit our Common booting problems forum thread for more details.
GPU Installation
Writing Disk Image
You will need to write Hive OS image onto an SSD. Although many user prefer to use USB drives, we recommend opting to an SSD instead. Start by extracting the image from the .zip file first and then writing the .img file onto a drive.
Windows user can write the image using HDD Raw Copy Tool, Win32 Disk Imager, Rufus or Etcher.
MacOS and Linux users can do it with ease using Etcher, or do it manually via command line as described below.
Here’s an example of the command:
dd if=hive-xxx.img of=/dev/sdb bs=10M status=progress
But be attentive when finding out the output disk of . Use fdisk -l command to list your partitions and select the correct one.
After the image is flashed you will discover a newly created drive in your system where you will be able to pre-configure your worker with either Farm Hash or it’s ID and password. Find rig-config-example.txt on HIVE drive and open it with a .txt editor. You can use the integrated text editors on Windows, MacOS and Linux or download a free alternative. For example, Notepad++ for Windows or Sublime Text for MacOS and Linux.
Now choose one of the two options below:
Optional Step — Farm Hash
Once the image copy is complete, you can go to your drive in Windows, Linux or Mac and find rig-config-example.txt file in the root folder. Here’s how it looks:
Enter your Farm Hash in the FARM_HASH= field by copying the value from your Settings tab. Here’s how the field should look like:
No need to set RIG_ID or RIG_PASSWD in this case. That’s it, just save your config file and rename it into rig.conf. Proceed by finishing the image installation and boot your worker. It will connect to the dashboard automatically.
Optional Step — Manual Setup
Once the image copy is complete, you can go to your drive in Windows, Linux or Mac and find rig-config-example.txt file in the root folder. Here’s how it looks:
Find and fill in the two fields:
That’s it, just save your config file and rename it into rig.conf. Proceed by finishing the image installation and boot your worker. It will connect to the dashboard automatically.
ASIC Installation
Before proceeding with installation, make sure that your ASIC miner is supported. The current list of supported models:
- Antminer S9
- Antminer S9i
- Antminer L3+
- Antminer L3++
- Antminer D3
- Antminer A3
- Antminer T9+
- Antminer Z9-Mini
Installation
Remotely connect to your worker using SSH. Visit the Teleconsole forum thread for more details. Then run the following command:
For Antminer D3 Blissz run the following command before installation:
Promptless Installation
You can use FARM_HASH to add your ASIC workers automatically without entering rig ID and password. Copy your FARM_HASH from the Settings tab of your Farm and enter it into the command line as shown below:
Replace the your_hash_from_web with your FARM_HASH.
For more details regarding ASIC installation, please refer to this GitHub page.
Finishing Setup
As soon as your worker connects to the dashboard, you’re all done! Your worker should now be ready for you to make a few final adjustments in the dashboard, which we will describe in our next article.
Install and configure HiveOS — Linux operating system for GPU mining rigs and ASICs
When assembling GPU mining rigs, the question always arises of choosing the operating system: Windows, Linux, or a specialized OS for mining. If Windows is still preferred by novice miners because of the easy entry threshold, then experienced miners with a large number of GPUs have OS choice priorities shifting towards stability, ease of management, monitoring, video card tuning capabilities and reducing PC resource usage. And all these requirements are met by specialized Linux-based operating systems, a striking representative of which is the popular among miners — HiveOS. The purpose of this material is to highlight the features of installing and configuring HiveOS for beginners, as HiveOS has a number of undeniable advantages over Windows, which greatly simplify the process of mining cryptocurrencies on the GPU.
The main difference between HiveOS and other similar projects is its free use for 4 or less rigs per account. For more rigs (workers), a monthly fee of 3USD or 3% comission on HiveOn pool for each worker is taken. For competing solutions, a fee of 1% to 5% is taken from the entire connected capacity by analogy with the way it is done in all popular miners.
That is why we recommend HiveOS to beginners with 1-4 GPU mining rigs. Moreover, installing and configuring HiveOS for mining is easier than with Windows.
Registration HiveOS.
The first thing you need is a USB flash drive or USB drive with a capacity of at least 8GB. In this case, a USB disk (HDD or SSD) will be preferable, because USB flash drives are not designed for a large number of recording cycles and tend to die during the first year of use as the medium of the operating system.
Tip: When HiveOS crashes, the system may not find the boot disk. This does not always mean that you need to overwrite the USB flash drive. Simply turn off the entire rig completely and wait until the LED on the USB flash drive stops flashing. After rebooting, HiveOS will work again.
For comparison, Windows 10 requires 20GB plus 16Gb for the page file. In addition, Windows 10 requires more RAM, a more powerful CPU, and the graphical interface takes up significant 700MB of video memory, which are very important for some mining algorithms (Ethash).
Installing HiveOS is also possible on the system drive, but it is better to leave it under Windows for the possibility of mining new cryptocurrencies that are not yet available on HiveOS.
And so, if you already have media on 8GB or more, we go to the HiveOS website to register and download an image of the operating system.
When registering, enter the CRYPTOAGE PromoCode to receive a bonus of 10 USD to your account.
Creating a bootable flash drive with HiveOS HiveOS
Go to the Install website menu to download the desired installation image.
There are several types of installation images: for ASICs, for GPU rigs and a separate image for Vega video cards. For all other video cards you need to choose a GPU image. There are two ways to download: a ZIP file directly from the site or a torrent file if the HiveOS site is overloaded.
To record a downloaded image, you can’t just copy the file to a USB flash drive, because you need a special «bit-by-bit» recording mode so that the flash drive becomes bootable.
This recording mode is provided by a specially developed program with a simple interface — Etcher. You can download it on the official site etcher.io
Image recording takes place in three stages.
1. The choice of the downloaded hiveos image, it is not necessary to extract the image itself from the archive, because the program will do it itself. Select Image Button
2. Select a USB flash drive or disk where the image will be recorded.
3 Click on the Flash button! And wait for the image to be written to external media.
During image recording, Windows will offer to format the USB flash drive or disk. This is not necessary, just click cancel.
Set up HiveOS to get started
While the image is being written to disk, go back to the HiveOS website, go to your personal account.
After installing the NiveOS image, your USB Flash drive will be visible as 3 different disks. One of them will have the name «HIVE».
You may need to reconnect the flash drive after recording the HiveOS image.
First you need to create a new farm, for this there is a PLUS button in the top menu.
After creating a new rig — it will appear on the main window, go to its settings.
Already in the rig settings window, we also click on the «PLUS» button in the top menu, where we select «Add Worker»
In the worker’s creation menu, select the GPU or ASIC device, come up with a name and password. The remaining fields are optional.
After creating the worker, you will see the data for the worker: Farm_Hash, RIG_ID and RIG_Password. This data is necessary to identify your rig. And they need to be written to the flash drive that you created using the Etcher program.
We go into the created HIVE drive on a USB flash drive, after downloading the RIG.CONF file. Downloading this file is available after creating the worker.
The RIG.CONF file must be copied to the «HIVE» flash drive in the root directory of the flash drive.
You can skip this step, but instead, when you first start HIVEOS, you will have to enter RIG_ID and RIG_PASSWORD to activate the system.
Configuring HIVEOS to start cryptocurrency mining
We have already taken the first step to create a worker to get the RIG.CONF file, then it remains to configure Wallets, Flight Sheets and choose the optimal settings for video cards.
Immediately after creating the worker, you need to create a Wallet for each cryptocurrency that you will mine.
Further in the example, we consider setting up a GPU rig on HiveOS for mining the popular cryptocurrency ETHEREUM. Similar actions will be relevant for all other options.
In the HiveOS main menu, where a list of all your rigs, look for the «Wallets» menu, go there and create a new wallet. The «Add wallet» button in the right corner.
Creating a wallet from the main menu, you create a global wallet that will be valid for all mining rigs, and not for one, if you create a wallet in the menu of one selected rig.
Next, you need to select «Coin» or cryptocurrency. Indicate the address where the mined coins will come. As a storage, it is better to choose local wallets or large cryptocurrency exchanges, for example, Binance.
Wallet name is the choice of the name of your choice. For Ether, you can call it Ethereum.
The source is optional, as is the API key.
The «Get wallet balance» switch is preferably turned on for your convenience. Because The account balance will be shown immediately in HiveOS, so that it would be easier to monitor the final result of mining.
The next step is to create a Flight Sheet.
Flight sheet is an option for final setting up HiveOS to start mining. Flight sheets as well as wallets are global for all rigs and individual for certain rigs. Create a flight sheet in the main menu to create a global flight sheet for all rigs at once.
Coin — the choice of cryptocurrency for which a flight sheet is created. Choose ETH.
Wallet — the choice of the Ethereum cryptocurrency wallet created in the previous step.
Pool — the choice of a pool for mining, it is advisable to choose from the supported pools for ease of setup.
For Ethereum, we chose the Binance pool. Before you start working with this pool, you need to register using this link.
We select in the Pool window — Binance Pool, a server selection window appears. Select EU Server and click «Apply.» You do not need to configure anything else.
Miner — the choice of a program for mining. For Ethereum, select Phoenix. Some miners like Claymore suggest using dual mining, i.e. mining two coins at once. Therefore, for these miners, you can use additional configuration windows, which we will not touch on now and just skip. Because such operating modes can lead to a quick failure of the equipment and for beginner miners in the early stages it is better to avoid them.
Additional settings for miner, if you selected a pool from the list of supported ones, is not required. Therefore, the miner settings menu may be required only in rare cases when the standard settings are unstable.
Click on the button «Create Flight List».
Now everything is ready to launch your first mining rig on HiveOS.
We go to the created RIG in the Workers menu.
Check that the system sees all the video cards in our case, there are 4 of them, while the power consumption of the system is already shown. At the bottom, the worker we created called GRIN should not have a white WI-FI icon with an exclamation mark. Otherwise, your RIG GPU is offline and you cannot manage it.
If your rig is still offline, then connect a monitor to the rig and verify that the system has booted and does not require a password at the first login. In the event that the HiveOS boot does not occur, you need to go into the BIOS of the motherboard (DEL button at boot) and install the boot from USB.
Ideally, you will see a picture similar to that in the screenshot.
To start mining, check the box opposite the rig (we have it GRIN). After that, the control panel will appear in the upper right corner.
Click on the ROCKET
Next, select the flight sheet
After a minute, we refresh the page in the browser and get a similar result:
The main menu of the rig shows the power consumption and the hash of the entire rig during mining.
Now you can go to the selected pool and check that hashrate is shown there.
This concludes the main part about how to set up HiveOS for the first time.
Next, we will talk about the main features of using HiveOS because of which, in fact, everyone switches to this OS.
Key features and functionality of HiveOS
The first thing worth noting is the ready-made options for tuning video cards for mining. Two options are available here: VBIOS firmware and/or frequency setting and Power Limit for all video cards in the system immediately according to the options already selected.
This functionality is available in the Cards menu.
We select one or all of the video cards at once, click on the SPEEDOMETER in the upper right corner and get into the overclock menu of the video cards.
Select a coin and a video card and immediately see the most popular overclocking options for the selected GPU. You can also set all parameters manually in the «CONFIG» tab.
It is worth noting here that Power Limit (PL) is not set here as a percentage of the nominal value, but in watts. Those. PL100 is a 100 watts limitation of GPU consumption.
Choose one of these options and look at the result:
As a result, we increased the hashrate from 27Mh/s to 28MH/s and at the same time reduced the power consumption from 130 to 110W. At the same time, no reboots and direct access to the PC were required.
Thus, you can experiment in search of a better result. Moreover, with this method the maximum that you can get is not stable operation during mining.
What can not be said about the VBIOS firmware, because overclocking with this method can completely break your video card.
As a conclusion, use overclocking without VBIOS firmware, especially since this method covers 95% of all miner needs.
The next useful item on the menu is STATISTICS
Statistics are available for Rig as a whole and for each worker individually. if general statistics are more focused on stability (disabling of cards, reloads, etc.), then the statistics of the worker are more informative, because shows GPU temperature and fan speed
The second useful feature is remote control of the miner: reading logs, configuration and restarting. In the menu, the symbol — PICKAXE is responsible for controlling the miner.
The next necessary function is updating HiveOS (Up Arrow Symbol). Along with the operating system, miners are also automatically updated to the latest version. The default update is in manual mode, but you can automate this process.
The remaining functionality (power management, URL server, VPN, network configuration, remote access, watchdog) may also be needed in some situations, but by default, HiveOS works stably and these functions are most likely not needed.
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So, this has been quite a learning experience. Don’t mix between your distro’s nvidia drivers, and the nvidia drivers from the website. You end up in a weird in-between state where nothing works properly. More importantly it ends up not being reproducable if you do get it working. I also learned a little bit about risers, and how tempermental they can be.
Installing the NVIDIA Driver
You might be tempted to go grab the NVIDIA binary installer from nvidia.com, but don’t. When it comes to distros Debian is pretty bleeding edge. Ubuntu being based on Debian inherits this. They also struggle to keep things really user friendly. While I am more of a command line junkie, I went ahead and did this part through the UI to get back in business.
One of the benfits you get by doing it through the UI, is the UI will properly unload the Nouveau driver, and use the NVIDIA driver. Other tutorials tell you to blacklist it and reboot, etc. Which just ends up in X failing to work, and you struggling to prevent the conflicting driver from loading because something in the GUI tries to load it regardless of blacklists.
The Riser cards
Some advice given to me was order all of the ones you need at once. Don’t order them one by one, because you get a different batch with different problems. So I took this advice and ordered a set of 6 risers. As soon as I plugged the risers in and booted up, I logged in via SSH and noticed I couldnt really use the GPU. When I did, the process would hang and become unkillable. So I loaded up the console and took a look.
This message was scrolling so fast on the console, that I had to kind of unfocus my eyes to even try to read it. After some research, I decided to turn it off. Once I did, the errors disappeared. But after I started the miner, it bailed and threw an error about the bus going away. I noticed there is a little bit of wiggle room with how these PCIe x1 inserts fit in the motherboard. I’m not sure if its a normal thing to need, or if this was the reason. Either way I added irqpolling as well. To do this set your GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line to the following:
Once you’ve done that, update your initrd with your new parameters by typing “update-grub”:
Now reboot, and you should be ready to start mining with your new risers.
The results
It is truly like music to my eyes. No errors, just mining…
With 2x NVIDIA GTX 1080 ROG Strix 8G cards:
I did manage to get ccminer to build, I will make a separate post on that. But the clear winner based on sol/s (and matches what the pool reports), is bminer.