440.64 .run Fail, Dell Precision 7920 Rack With 2x RTX 2080 TI, Red Hat Workstation 7.7

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello, our team has been trying to get two RTX 2080 TIs running on a single rack mounted Dell 7920s to no avail.

In the end, we receive a fail message:

ERROR: Unable to load the ‘nvidia-drm’ kernel module.

I’ve been through the install process several times just to see if I’ve missed a step. I’ll try and include everything I’ve done.

Along with the CUDA guide, I’ve followed the steps outlined here:

I am running RHEL Workstation 7.7, with a x86_64 architecture.

The Linux kernel is 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64

I believe I have blacklisted nouveau and set up the persistence daemon.

I am attempting to install via the .run file: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.64.run

I added the command: pci=realloc to the kernel boot parameters through grub as suggested in another post.

I also found this message on a Dell forum. I don’t believe we’ve had a chance to update the BIOS yet. The current machine is not having a problem moving past POST (though we do have another one that does get stuck on boot).

At this point I’m really stuck, I have no idea what to try next. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz.log|attachment (gz file) (84.4 KB)

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Link to the Dell issue:

https://www.dell.com/support/article/de-de/sln289189/precision-workstations-with-multiple-graphic-cards-or-pcie-cards-may-not-finish-post?lang=en

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You have secure boot enabled but not set up modules signing, please disable secure boot in bios.

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Ok, great. Thanks for the quick response. I’ll have to check with the sysadmin team and see about that process. Will report back once we have an update.

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Hi Generix! Our tech team is a bit worried about removing Secure Boot. The option is definitely on the table, but I was wondering if there was a workaround we could pursue that allows us to leave Secure Boot enabled. Thanks again.

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You can of course also leave secure boot enabled and set up module signing instead:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Kernel_Administration_Guide/sect-signing-kernel-modules-for-secure-boot.html

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Addendum: once you created and enrolled the certs, you can use them directly with the .run installer. Run it with the -A option to get the options for module signing displayed.

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Hi, quick update. The admin team was able to reconfigure without Secure Boot. I was able to install the base driver, along with CUDA and cuDNN and get some sample scripts working placing data on both GPUs. Thanks for your help!