- nvidia collector: read pcie.link.gen.current/max from nvidia-smi instead of sysfs to avoid false Gen1 readings when GPU is in ASPM idle state - build: remove bee-nccl-gpu-stress from rm -f list so shell script from overlay is not silently dropped from the ISO - smoketest: add explicit checks for bee-gpu-burn, bee-john-gpu-stress, bee-nccl-gpu-stress, all_reduce_perf - netconf: re-exec via sudo when not root to fix RTNETLINK/resolv.conf errors - auto/config: reduce loglevel 7→3 to show clean systemd output on boot - auto/config: blacklist snd_hda_intel and related audio modules (unused on servers) - package-lists: remove firmware-intel-sound and firmware-amd-graphics from base list; move firmware-amd-graphics to bee-amd variant only - bible-local: mark memtest ADR resolved, document working solution Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ISO Build
bee ISO is built inside a Debian 12 builder container via iso/builder/build-in-container.sh.
Requirements
- Docker Desktop or another Docker-compatible container runtime
- Privileged containers enabled
- Enough free disk space for builder cache, Debian live-build artifacts, NVIDIA driver cache, and CUDA userspace packages
Build On macOS
From the repository root:
sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh
The script defaults to linux/amd64 builder containers, so it works on:
- Intel Mac
- Apple Silicon (
M1/M2/M3/M4) via Docker Desktop's Linux VM
You do not need to pass --platform manually for normal ISO builds.
Useful Options
Build with explicit SSH keys baked into the ISO:
sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --authorized-keys ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
Rebuild the builder image:
sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --rebuild-image
Use a custom cache directory:
sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --cache-dir /path/to/cache
Notes
- The builder image is automatically rebuilt if the local tag exists for the wrong architecture.
- The live ISO boots with Debian
live-boottoram, so the read-only medium is copied into RAM during boot and the runtime no longer depends on the original USB/BMC virtual media staying present. - Target systems need enough RAM for the full compressed live medium plus normal runtime overhead, or boot may fail before reaching the TUI.
- The NVIDIA variant installs DCGM 4 packages matched to the CUDA user-mode driver major version. For driver branch
590/ CUDA13.x, the package family isdatacenter-gpu-manager-4-cuda13rather than legacydatacenter-gpu-manager. - Override the container platform only if you know why:
BEE_BUILDER_PLATFORM=linux/amd64 sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh
- The shipped ISO is still
amd64. - Output ISO artifacts are written under
dist/.