Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Debian

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).

= FAQ =

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

2014-03-19
Flasher: wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-03-19/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-03-19-2gb.img.xz md5sum BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-03-19-2gb.img.xz 912775fc52af6d43a4104fd1a8dee880 BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-03-19-2gb.img.xz

microSD/Standalone: wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-03-19/bone-debian-7.4-2014-03-19-2gb.img.xz md5sum bone-debian-7.4-2014-03-19-2gb.img.xz a24ff9701a39ba23486b9e3ddc20fca8 bone-debian-7.4-2014-03-19-2gb.img.xz

2014-03-19 Changes
Add: ID.txt like Angstrom for version info. https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/b5bd2dd6d46d413da0e84543073c92177a05652c Add: serial/dvi & ssh banner to: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/3548f4516be3cce253d8529584894b43cbbd895f Remove: Desktop root terminal (password is blank, this application requires one.) https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/92910a3709f0480ea9dc727eb90610cccab5b371 Upgrade: u-boot v2014.04-rc2 https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/a505a395f184eaa655676833255fdfc3f31872f5 LCD: disable DPMS/blanking mode Cursor: set cursor via [xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr] instead of xorg SWCursor true, fixes random lockups (Thanks Cody Lacey) https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/3faedf9308b4adcdac6a747aadff44ede33cb59b Added: beaglebone meta package https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/1b4caa3de385414674b734157f6bf1d487e0cd9d Added: libopencv-dev package Fixes: http://bugs.elinux.org/issues/61 https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/1c0e5f8f272c6e3a3b659ea7e3854abe5c81df40 Added: libopencv-core-dev package https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/6af879606f2638dda363c54264e8e72ddb032b98

2014-03-04
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/beagle-debian/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-03-04-2gb.img.xz md5sum BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-03-04-2gb.img.xz fd15e685b328eca7ec31e6edd72ac6f6 BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-03-04-2gb.img.xz

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/beagle-debian/bone-debian-7.4-2014-03-04-2gb.img.xz md5sum bone-debian-7.4-2014-03-04-2gb.img.xz 49c1dd902841560a80fba89bfd940a74 bone-debian-7.4-2014-03-04-2gb.img.xz