Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Debian
This page is about running the armhf port of Debian distribution at BeagleBoard. The latest release beagleboard.org image can be found at: http://beagleboard.org/latest-images
Contents
- 1 Checking The Debian Image Version
- 2 Installing
- 3 FAQ
- 4 Debian Build Instructions
- 5 Debian Releases
- 6 Debian Image Testing Snapshots
- 7 Kernel Options
Checking The Debian Image Version
You should check the version of the image on the microSD/eMMC by opening the ID.txt file in the FAT partition.
root@beaglebone:~# cat /etc/dogtag BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Debian Image 2014-03-19
This file can also be accessed via a PC (Windows/Mac/Linux) via either mounting the FAT partition directly off the microSD card or via the usb interface (flash drive).
Installing
Oracle Java 8
Information:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
Install:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
Verify:
debian@beaglebone:~$ java -version java version "1.8.0_60" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)
TI PRU Code Generation Tools
http://software-dl.ti.com/codegen/non-esd/downloads/download.htm#PRU
Install:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ti-pru-cgt-installer
Older rootfs (when above package doesn't exist):
wget http://downloads.ti.com/codegen/esd/cgt_public_sw/PRU/2.1.1/ti_cgt_pru_2.1.1_armlinuxa8hf_busybox_installer.sh chmod +x ti_cgt_pru_2.1.1_armlinuxa8hf_busybox_installer.sh sudo ./ti_cgt_pru_2.1.1_armlinuxa8hf_busybox_installer.sh
FAQ
Expanding File System Partition On A microSD
By default the microSD image is only about 2GB in size, to fully expand the partition to the full size of your microSD card simple run.
cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./grow_partition.sh sudo reboot
On the next reboot, [df -h] should show the full microSD card size.
Flashing eMMC
To set up the standalone microSD image to automatically flash the eMMC on powerup. *Note, img files with the words "eMMC-flasher" already had this enabled...*
In /boot/uEnv.txt:
##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher: #cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
Change to:
##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher: cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
Optional, update Flasher Scripts:
cd /opt/scripts/ git pull
and reboot the system, it'll flash the eMMC on the next bootup. (make sure to remove the microSD after flashing is complete)
Kernel Upgrade
We can't ship support for everything on release day, so we push out new kernels as fixes, support for new capes, etc are posted on the beagleboard.org mainline list.
cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./update_kernel.sh sudo reboot
Installing kernel headers
If you want to build a kernel module natively, you'll need to install the correct kernel headers.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
In a Makefile, perform:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(shell uname -r)
Loading custom capes
Due to limitations in debian wheezy's userspace, the use of an initramfs, and having firmware builtin to the kernel. It is currently not possible to load "custom" capes via: capemgr.enable_partno=xyz. Instead an init script has been set up to load the cape/capes as soon as possible.
Built-in Cape:
capemgr.enable_partno=BB-SPIDEV1 slot #7: Requesting part number/version based 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo slot #7: Requesting firmware 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version '00A0' slot #7: dtbo 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo' loaded; converting to live tree
Custom External Cape:
capemgr.enable_partno=BB-SPI1-01 slot #7: Requesting part number/version based 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo slot #7: Requesting firmware 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version '00A0' failed to load firmware 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo' loader: failed to load slot-7 BB-SPI1-01:00A0 (prio 0)
Workaround:
add "CAPE=BB-SPI1-01" to /etc/default/capemgr
Privileged echo
As a normal user, you can not "sudo echo 'something' >> /etc/privilegedfile"
echo 'something' | sudo tee /etc/privilegedfile
Timezone
By default this image is set up to display time in utc mode. If you would like to change this to your local region.
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
or:
echo "Europe/Zurich" > /etc/timezone dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
Jessie Timezone
List of available timezones:
timedatectl list-timezones
Set timezone:
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/North_Dakota/Center
W: GPG error: http://debian.beagleboard.org wheezy-bbb
W: GPG error: http://debian.beagleboard.org wheezy-bbb Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840304 KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840304
Note this directions are version dependent, so double check your version:
debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /etc/dogtag BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Debian Image 2014-05-14
2014-05-14 GPG error: Disable: http://debian.beagleboard.org repo:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Change:
deb [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main #deb-src [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main
To:
#deb [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main #deb-src [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main
sudo apt-get update
2014-05-14 GPG error: Optional enable: http://repos.rcn-ee.com/
Download archive-keyring:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/repos/debian/pool/main/r/rcn-ee-archive-keyring/rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2016.04.24~bpo70+20160424+1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i rcn-ee-archive-keyring_*_all.deb
Add repo to /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [arch=armhf] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian wheezy main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list" sudo sh -c "echo '#deb-src [arch=armhf] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian wheezy main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
Update packages:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install npm c9-core-installer --reinstall
Adding bb.org-overlays to jessie console image
Currently by default, the console image doesn't include the *.dtbo overlays.
Install build requirements: (add's 145Mb to the console image)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core device-tree-compiler
Clone bb.org-overlays repo:
git clone https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/ cd ./bb.org-overlays/ ./install.sh
Debian Build Instructions
You'll want a fairly beefy ARM system to run this script.
git clone git://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder.git cd image-builder ./beagleboard.org_image.sh
Output of the autobuilder can be found at http://builds.beagleboard.org.
Debian Releases
http://beagleboard.org/latest-images
BeagleBoard-X15 weekly
Bug tracker: http://bugs.elinux.org/projects/beagleboard-x15
microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15) Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-12-18/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-12-18-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-12-18-4gb* 8e203f417f63069de2e5267cfaf0005d294cbc5b1138e643ab1f9d460f93a922 bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-12-18-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-12-18-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Debian Image Testing Snapshots
2017-01-03
BBW/BBB (All Revs) Machinekit
microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Classic
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/machinekit/bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* 9a718dc7379fcf554f100a3f4407081dfc1f2214f3de048f77581e72f66d47dd bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Based on Debian Jessie (new)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/machinekit/bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* c24412544f11d600e7c8513f107defd76abc2397b634cdbfa47660725e3fd81d bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2017-01-03 notes
* U-Boot: v2017.01-rc3 * Kernel: 4.4.39-ti-r79
Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* af85216007a0681be266f07acefd77504588651c15f938f6f36250979d2cf64a BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* 5778545a41b2fda5bed4bd53f44f09b387fbc398aeaf5fc41759985b25f06b09 bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* cd74dfc2ae584e1bd1f7e4bc153e40ec43fe1481ae38b4ead672cc9126aa9308 bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-xm-4gb) (BeagleBoard xM)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/lxqt-xm-4gb/bbxm-debian-8.6-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbxm-debian-8.6-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* 11519162571d2ef0b11ea0e00030b71dd4de3062589cd93d7d0c332620f7f2e1 bbxm-debian-8.6-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbxm-debian-8.6-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Jessie Snapshot iot
Flasher: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* 3dec77eaa2025304653af21b7113a0e97b84ad9fbb9b920ffa8f153f7c2b2735 BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/iot/bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* b5fe4f79f2edf9ca25967b06b9d8344054e298ef39667211093c2e5011f6d236 bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Jessie Snapshot console
microSD/Standalone: (console) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/console/bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-03-2gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-03-2gb* 7c0097177f2def6ca2de436da43c4e1d9636b5af82945630f4e0557c0b044cd3 bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-03-2gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-03-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/console/bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-03-2gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-03-2gb* a4ec5044c0475d43aaef201e452dce4c0dbccfbee2b2b5e696a6f03be731bdd9 bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-03-2gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-03-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Stretch testing
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch
2017-01-03 notes
* U-Boot: v2017.01-rc3 * Kernel: 4.9.0-ti-r13
microSD/Standalone: (testing) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/stretch-iot/bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* 3a04bf21842b8dcf7694e14b977985ce2dbb3e6d23f7338b164924e3b3a106bf bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (testing) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-03/stretch-iot/bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb* e33173a926991ffb90e207c952d540ed8be8d828a57f5c0cdc6f78d20fb55b02 bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-03-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Kernel Options
General apt syntax for searching and installing a specific kernel:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep <branch> sudo apt-get install linux-image-<specific version> sudo reboot
Latest kernel script
cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./update_kernel.sh <OPTIONS>
3.8.x
This is the first beagleboard.org long term kernel tree with capemanager support, it's been the default install for Debian Wheezy
beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/3.8
3.8.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black FULL Cape Support --bone-channel --stable
3.8.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black FULL Cape Support + Xenomai --bone-xenomai-channel --stable
4.4.x-ti
beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/4.4 Based on: http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=ti-linux-kernel/ti-linux-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ti-rt-linux-4.4.y
4.4.x-ti All BeagleBone Variants and BeagleBoard-X15 --ti-channel --lts-4_4
4.4.x-ti All BeagleBone Variants and BeagleBoard-X15 + RT --ti-rt-channel --lts-4_4
4.4.x-ti All BeagleBone Variants and BeagleBoard-X15 + Xenomai --ti-xenomai-channel --lts-4_4
4.9.x-ti
beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/4.9
4.9.x-ti All BeagleBone Variants and BeagleBoard-X15 --ti-channel --lts-4_9
Mainline (4.4.x lts)
4.4.x All BeagleBone Variants --bone-kernel --lts-4_4
4.4.x All BeagleBone Variants + RT --bone-rt-kernel --lts-4_4
Mainline (4.9.x lts)
4.9.x All BeagleBone Variants --bone-kernel --lts-4_9
Debian 8: jessie
sudo apt-get install linux-image-armmp