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 setup 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:

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 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

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_2015.10.22~bpo70+20151022+1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2015.10.22~bpo70+20151022+1_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/2016-05-31/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb* 3ad7998608c69263f4d3fa5c33e61bef3d7993bc81416ffc718832ceb5c7ecc9 bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

= Debian Image Testing Snapshots =

Historical Archive mirror (not as fast as rcn-ee.com (linode)) https://rcn-ee.online/rootfs/bb.org/testing/

microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Classic
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.online/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-04-10/machinekit/bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb* d1ccdae7562ac346d78f74d048aef05a831becbef5b14128ec838db52e9e1ee5 bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb.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/2016-05-31/machinekit/bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb* efd2e1d079bbce9401d0ee579fa884bb22639ee046416e4487ca82e17e9565e4 bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2016-05-31 notes * U-Boot: v2016.03 * Kernel: 4.4.11-ti-r29

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone Black/Green 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb* 4243aabf4badc23ce9006b63ec7102dc31bacc60cbf6c67b9868ee8895ea23fc BBB-blank-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb* 0c06b28fef2650c1e30e83e6172ad7662626c3448e65c47a135cfcdf7f8ca9a6 bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-blank-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-blank-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb* 7faaf504691d7b5d82888c49747b0a976bcb95c396e802a13084484bfae9232b bbx15-blank-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-blank-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.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/2016-05-31/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb* 3ad7998608c69263f4d3fa5c33e61bef3d7993bc81416ffc718832ceb5c7ecc9 bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-2gb) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb* ff0144cde7823a13c25cdfb2a0e168d670ba98d85104791d132337497715e1a5 bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (iot) (BeagleBone Black/Green eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb* 3a622fb32d0cbc7ba83e9534545adf1b944e2745c50d0597f070b2891984438f BBB-blank-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (iot) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/iot/bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb* 22fbba21cf294a92528b8a973e838f3cac801ce0e7d180b260a583f4bb0d1318 bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (console) (BeagleBone Black/Green eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/console/BBB-blank-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb* f31a0f60532854a3223914d569b9a2dce23f7d35d6340ecd78093609665cd1ff BBB-blank-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/console/bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb* c1369f896a2e95f726d312a5ed201bfe108ac43e1999e238ad9f888f5317c95c bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-31/console/bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb* fdeacd8858a11547f53e1281d8399d74932bb0623f2d10dc0d369f14583175ba bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.img.xz

Windows/Mac/Linux gui http://etcher.io

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-31-2gb.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

4.1.x-ti
beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/4.1 Based on: http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=ti-linux-kernel/ti-linux-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ti-rt-linux-4.1.y

4.1.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 --ti-channel --lts-4_1

4.1.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 + RT --ti-rt-channel --lts-4_1

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 BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 --ti-channel --lts-4_4

4.4.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 + RT --ti-rt-channel --lts-4_4

Mainline (4.1.x lts)
4.1.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black --bone-kernel --lts-4_1

4.1.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black + RT --bone-rt-kernel --lts-4_1

Mainline (4.4.x lts)
4.4.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black --bone-kernel --lts-4_4

4.4.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black + RT --bone-rt-kernel --lts-4_4

Debian 8: jessie
sudo apt-get install linux-image-armmp