Short Guide to Running RBM on Linux with Nvidia GPUs
Stage 1: Prepping the OS
Download and flash a copy of HiveOS. Boot into HiveOS and set up an account. Get the rig up and mining with an overclock where p0 state is enabled. You can then remove the flight sheet to stop the rig from mining and disconnect the rig from the hiveOS servers either by deleting the account information from the rig or deleting the rig from the website.
Note: This step can be skipped but enabling p0 state seems to provide more stability when pushing overclocks to their limits. Using HiveOS is preferable since it contains all the prerequisite mining packages.
Stage 2: Install RBM
You can ignore the additional steps on github since drivers are already installed. Just run these
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/rainbowminer/RainbowMiner
cd RainbowMiner
chmod +x *.sh
sudo ./install.sh
Start the Script:
./start.sh
Alternative: start as Linux screen:
./start-screen.sh
Press Ctrl+a, then d to detach from screen (imagine you want to disconnect your ssh session)
Enter screen -R RainbowMiner to reconnect to screen
Stage 3: Configuring RBM
Run the initial set up of RBM as you normally would, there are a few desirable but optional steps.
Enable file sharing through samba (preferred way to edit config files remotely)
sudo apt update
sudo apt install samba
Add this to the file
[RainbowMiner]
path = /home/user/RainbowMiner
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force user = root
sudo service smbd restart
Making sure OCprofiles is working
ps aux | grep Xorg
Copy the top path to your config file…
If using linux headless make sure the option is set correctly.
Set RBM to run at start up
sudo nano /etc/rc.local
Insert the rainbowminer command
(Written by @acos0874 – Thank you very much!)
Start RainbowMiner as a systemd service
The alternative to crontab or rc.local: a service unit lets you start, stop and enable
RainbowMiner with the usual systemd commands, and it can run RainbowMiner as a normal user or
as root. As root, create /etc/systemd/system/rainbowminer.service (adapt the user name and
the path):
[Unit]
Description=starts RainbowMiner as a service
Wants=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=USERNAME ## your username here, or comment it out to run as root
ExecStart=/YOURPATH/RainbowMiner/start-nohup.sh
KillMode=none
TimeoutStopSec=15
ExecStop=/YOURPATH/RainbowMiner/stopp.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then:
systemctl daemon-reload # once, so systemd learns about the new unit
systemctl enable rainbowminer.service # once, to start it at boot
systemctl start rainbowminer.service # bring it up now
systemctl stop rainbowminer.service # clean shutdown via stopp.sh
KillMode=none and TimeoutStopSec are what let stopp.sh end the miners in an orderly
fashion instead of systemd killing the process group.
Thanks to @timvis for this unit file
(issue #2602).