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_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/2016-09-18/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* 47f5ed42228d3c363e2f17e7f84b1a5a738a8a2992668fef866eee62c97b672e bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.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.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-09-18/machinekit/bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* 91f7bc6ed76505f731f455eaa7018030bad976c6229ab4a8023401527e8322f3 bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.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/2016-09-18/machinekit/bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* d0ac693160c0573e30667100d997165f1dbb02e82f664dec00e2c4ea4d11f920 bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2016-09-18 notes * U-Boot: v2016.09 * Kernel: 4.4.21-ti-r45

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone Black/Green 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-09-18/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* 4c0345e5c5b5d6fbffafe5b88c137807aa3f7e97ffea9e8caa6f9aa01e585c29 BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.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/2016-09-18/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* 3f02e06d0ddf57c64e3a153269b408bd75da9983479ae0958876459e80082968 bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-09-18/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* 290a25741b36419e712840cd44ab42610ce84af231cbeb53c04dbd466fc0761a bbx15-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.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/2016-09-18/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* 47f5ed42228d3c363e2f17e7f84b1a5a738a8a2992668fef866eee62c97b672e bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.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/2016-09-18/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb* b4f0330e7b7fd4334d6052df5727dff4b6c4553bd70fb7b85568784af8cc1b3a bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.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/2016-09-18/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* d7b2a043794c7434b2978f06a28b654c1d1aeac620705c0d8bb1829cdc81bf9f BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.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/2016-09-18/iot/bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb* 0aa59d6255f4504a1b8e35ef47d90b42e5c956628e20a68f3938b6895e820e44 bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb.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/2016-09-18/console/BBB-blank-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb* 325447fba970176a7584b5b08fcfba276fab213a83c48214b48f230b87cc5730 BBB-blank-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.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/2016-09-18/console/bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb* 6b2c0fa8429c14f2f1a7171af456f506b831b8132d18c443984344409fface11 bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-09-18/console/bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb* 113a58cea51c4295b9f8d94c72d79ee5160ba0da17d4e0efcf3eeff04f0a959a bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2016-09-18-2gb.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