OS setup and Linux

Introduction PXE is an environment used to boot the computer with a network card without the use of local storage media. PXE booting consists of two components - a PXE server and diskless clients. Using a PXE Server and…

Ultimate way to replace running Linux with Hive. hive-replace With this script you can replace your running Linux with Hive on the fly. You can run this on any standard Ubuntu, or other competitor mining OS (like e**os…

Sometimes there can be situation when Ubuntu repo is out of sync and it can’t find some package. This happens because Hive is updating itself only but not the whole Ubuntu to minimise traffic. In a long run some package …

SIMPLE COMMANDS agent-screen — show hive client agent (you can exit from it with Ctrl+A, D) firstrun -f — ask for for rig ID and password again mc — file manager like Norton Commander but for Linux selfupgrade — upgra…

You can find FARM_HASH on the web. Using it you can easily add rigs in bulk without creating rigs on the web and getting RIG_ID. Hash is unique for each farm. Write Hive image as usual to your Flash/SSD. After the write…

Sometimes users want to try other drivers. Really advanced would not ask such questions, but if you want to play here is a guide. Starting from 0.5-70 there is an utility to Nvidia install driver which you can use fro…

Where the logs are dwelling… Miner logs The simple way. Click on the “Log” button under the “Miner” selection. http://forum.hiveos.farm/uploads/editor/yr/nilcobp2yg17.png You will get a response with the current scre…

So there is common situation when the boot is going, then you see HIVE message in console and then the screen is going black. The reason for this is failing to start X server. It’s a linux graphical user interface. Mak…

Sometimes after update something is not working for you and you’d like to go back to previous version. Though it can’t be done via web panel but you can do it manually either from SSH shell or “Linux Command Execute” on …

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 sho…