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

= 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:
 * 1) enable BBB: eMMC Flasher:
 * 2) cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh

Change to: cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
 * 1) enable BBB: eMMC Flasher:

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
 * 1) deb-src [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main

To:
 * 1) deb [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main
 * 2) 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/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

= Debian Image Testing Snapshots =

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

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

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 sudo apt-get install linux-image- sudo reboot

Latest kernel script cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./update_kernel.sh 

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