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ethOS not booting

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I purchased the download, unzipped, used HDDRaw Copied the .iso to a blank Mushkin SSD. I cannot get the thing to recognize.

MOBO is a ASUS P7P55D-E PRO; no issues booting from this SSD when it was running WIN8.1

Any ideas? Ive tried multiple SATA ports...

Thanks, trying to not pee pee away the 39.00 for the OS
 
I'm not familiar with that HDD Raw Copy Tool program, but make sure that it actually viewed the contents of the iso and wrote them. If it simply "copied the .iso" over, that isn't going to work.

I've had good success using the ethOS USB sticks. Less wiring to deal with.
 
I tried etcher.io and it worked. thanks, ill try the sticks next time. Thanks-

Duron - have you added any wireless drivers to your ethOS machines? its using a ubuntu repository right?
 
No, I ran a wire to the garage and put a switch out there. Yes, Ubuntu-based, so it shouldn't be too difficult to add in drivers as long as you have a fairly common wireless chipset. I'm not sure how much they stripped out though.

I can say that I did have one of my machines running wirelessly on Windows for a while without any issues, so it really shouldn't be too detrimental to mining as long as you have a reliable signal.
 
Also, word of advice, they DO pay attention to how many licenses you've paid for. I had 3 of the USB keys and decided to copy one of them to another USB key I had. All worked well at first when I used the new stick in place of one of the old sticks, but as soon as I tried to have it running on all 4 at once, their web GUI locked me out. The OS and mining continued to function fine, but the web GUI was no longer available until I purchased another digital copy and then had to wait several hours for my web GUI to be unlocked.
 
Lol why would you even pay for ethOS.

Just get a 120GB SSD and windows 10.

Or ask the friend who uses Linux for everything, and ask him to build you a custom mining OS.
 
I'm a huge fan of being able to see the stats on all of my machines on one simple web GUI. It isn't super great, but it is considerably better than anything I'm capable of right now or have the time to learn. I use the in-browser SSH-like functionality too as a shortcut quite frequently, though I can easily do the same thing that does with WinSCP. I can use that from my phone though without having to have a separate SSH client. The remote config hosting support is also pretty cool, and I use that quite a bit as well. Also accessible from my phone.

My biggest gripe about ethOS is the lack of undervolting support. Running Windows saved me a good amount of power, but I was having quite a few issues with drivers at the time. I'd get it all running, then after a reboot, Windows would sometimes re-install drivers for a card or two, and with the modded BIOS, it wouldn't work until I re-applied the BIOS checksum patch. I suppose using different drivers that didn't have the BIOS checksum check would have taken care of that. I still don't have a nice web panel to keep an eye on all of my rigs though then. Best I could do easily would be to see if they are hashing on ethermine.org.
 
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