Nvidia CUDA Toolkit supports CentOS 7 and it is relatively simple to install it. Nvidia provides three types of installation – a big setup file,…
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How to compile xmr-stak (2.10) under CentOS 7 for CPU mining cryptocurrencies in September 2019
A time to refresh our old article on how to compile xmr-stak for CPU mining with the new version and this time a new GNU…
How to install GNU GCC 8 on CentOS 7
It has been long after releasing the GNU GCC 8.x, but at last, there is a trusted repository, which has offered us packages for GNU…
CentOS 7 dracut-initqueue timeout and could not boot – warning /dev/disk/by-id/md-uuid- does not exist
Let’s say you update your software raid layout – create, delete or modify your software raid and reboot the system and your server does not…
Failed to start Security Audit Service, Authorization Manager and Login Service
A power outrage caused one of our servers to shut down unexpectedly and after it had been powered up the server did not show up….
Unpack centos 7 initramfs file with and without dracut skipcpio
In CentOS 7 the initramfs consists of two concatenated gzipped cpio files. If you want to check what files and probably configuration files are included…
Centos 7 Server hangs up on boot after deleting a software raid (mdadm device)
We have a CentOS 7 server with a simple two hard drives setup in RAID1 of total 4 devices for boot, root, swap and storage….
Update firmware of AOC-USAS2LP-H8iR (smc2108) – LSI 2108 MegaRAID Hardware Controller
This card AOC-USAS2LP-H8iR is really old (probably 7-9 years), but still it works, so you can check if you are with the latest and greatest…
Reset lost admin password of Grafana server (CentOS 7)
It could happen to lose your Grafana admin password and luckily there is a pretty easy way for the system administrator of the Grafana server…
CentOS 7 – load a new kernel without rebooting the server
Here are the commands needed to load a new kernel without rebooting your server or desktop computer. Why you need this? Sometime rebooting a server…