Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Debian

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This page is about running the armhf port of Debian distribution at BeagleBoard. The latest beagleboard.org image can be found at: http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

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 /boot/uboot/ID.txt
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

Installing Java

Download: (jdk-8-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-arm-downloads-2187472.html

Extract:

sudo tar xfv jdk-8-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz -C /opt/

Setup Environment Variables:

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0/
export JRE_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0/jre/
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/jdk1.8.0/bin/:/opt/jdk1.8.0/jre/bin/

Verify:

debian@arm:~$ java -version
java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)

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.

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

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 setup 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"

sudo sh -c "echo 'something' >> /etc/privilegedfile"

Timezone

By default this image is setup 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

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

Debian Releases

http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

2014-07-16

Flasher: (lxde)

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-07-16/lxde/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.6-lxde-armhf-2014-07-16-2gb.img.xz
md5sum: f269b9c8f768f7a65a60d965b94828c3

microSD/Standalone: (lxde)

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-07-16/lxde/bone-debian-7.6-lxde-armhf-2014-07-16-4gb.img.xz
md5sum: fd51b030e54d0d6b09efb67d75087e4b

microSD/Standalone: (console)

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-07-16/console/bone-debian-7.6-console-armhf-2014-07-16-2gb.img.xz
md5sum: e8bf7fa4b751e9260ae9f6eb3873140a  

2014-07-16 changes

U-Boot v2014.07
Actually include wireless firmware (forgot that in 2014-07-10)
Simpler kernel updates: ( sudo apt-get install linux-image-xyz ; sudo reboot )
Console = around 200Mb's installed

2014-07-10

Flasher: (lxde)

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-07-10/lxde/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-lxde-armhf-2014-07-10-2gb.img.xz
md5sum: 7b77f1f436071e0d135a4a286e0ee234

microSD/Standalone: (lxde)

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-07-10/lxde/bone-debian-7.5-lxde-armhf-2014-07-10-4gb.img.xz
md5sum: 76c6a620b27b4e1e1d578cb5cde13c99

Flasher: (console)

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-07-10/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-console-armhf-2014-07-10-2gb.img.xz
md5sum: 1ebcbbf031dcb7dbd5391c8305951d53

microSD/Standalone: (console)

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-07-10/console/bone-debian-7.5-console-armhf-2014-07-10-2gb.img.xz
md5sum: 82b9cd218bad28c782ea6831c048cc95

2014-07-10 changes

Improved flashing script
kernel update: v3.8.13-bone60
New Partition setup: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:U-boot_partitioning_layout_2.0

2014-05-14

Flasher:

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/debian.beagleboard.org/images/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz
(mirror) https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-05-14/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz
md5sum BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz
74615fb680af8f252c034d3807c9b4ae  BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz

microSD/Standalone:

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz
(mirror) https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-05-14/bone-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz
md5sum bone-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz
35877ce21e8ed0eb1bdc6819ad71c317  bone-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz

2014-05-14 changes

Improved flashing script
kernel update: v3.8.13-bone50

2014-04-23

Flasher:

wget http://debian.beagleboard.org/images/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz
(mirror) https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-04-23/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz
md5sum BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz
29c1e9c3e745a3966f9e749b6a89ea50  BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz

microSD/Standalone:

wget http://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz
(mirror) https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-04-23/bone-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz
md5sum bone-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz
b38f107faea671fc9074de5012ef82cb  bone-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz