Saturday, June 30, 2018

How to upgrade M7076-X540-2T to support UEFI mode


1.      Install M7076-X540-2T at OCP slot of motherboard. (ex. S7106)
2.      Boot up S7106 and enter BIOS setting screen
3.      Set BIOS -> Advanced -> PCI Configuration -> Above 4G Decoding from “Enabled” to “Disabled”.
4.      Boot up S7016 to DOS mode.
5.      Type bootutil and press enter to check EEPROM status of M7076-X540-2T

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Trouble Shooting: Cannot access BMC Web interface, but can get BMC information from ipmi command


Symptom: BMC is reachable through impi and ikvm just fine, but the web interface is not reachable.

Solution:It seems the http service function of BMC is disabled. Two processes can fix this issue.

Sample case: Tyan S7106 motherboard

BMC v2.0

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Case Study: How to test AMD MI25



AMD MI25


1. Install Ubuntu 16.04.4 Desktop
2. Upgrade Ubuntu 16.04.4 Desktop
a. sudo apt update
b. sudo apt dist-upgrade
c. sudo apt install libnuma-dev
d. sudo apt install linux-headers-4.13.0-32-generic linux-image-4.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-32-generic linux-signed-image-4.13.0-32-generic
e. sudo reboot

How to fix gpu_burn compiler failure issue

System Environment: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server CUDA v12.0 GPU: RTX-4080 (driver 525.85.05) AP: GPU_Burn v1.1 Symptom: met error in make gpu_bur...