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"

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

i take full responsibility for knowing my beagle is now insecure
as of 2017-02-19, BeagleBoard images now longer enable these insecure options by default, you are free to recreate them as you wish.

remove root password
root_password=$(cat /etc/shadow | grep root | awk -F ':' '{print $2}') sed -i -e 's:'$root_password'::g' /etc/shadow

ssh root@beaglebone.local
sed -i -e 's:PermitEmptyPasswords no:PermitEmptyPasswords yes:g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config sed -i -e 's:UsePAM yes:UsePAM no:g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config sed -i -e 's:PermitRootLogin without-password:PermitRootLogin yes:g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

sudo no password required
echo "debian ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" >>/etc/sudoers

U-Boot Overlays
Check via serial U-Boot SPL 2017.05-00002-gc5dd2565b4 (May 08 2017 - 11:44:16) Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.05-00002-gc5dd2565b4 (May 08 2017 - 11:44:16 -0500), Build: jenkins-github_Bootloader-Builder-549

Check via system debian@beaglebone:~$ cd /opt/scripts/tools/ debian@beaglebone:/opt/scripts/tools$ git pull debian@beaglebone:/opt/scripts/tools$ sudo ./version.sh | grep bootloader bootloader:[microSD-(push-button)]:[/dev/mmcblk0]:[U-Boot 2017.05-00002-gc5dd2565b4]

To upgrade your version of U-Boot: debian@beaglebone:~$ cd /opt/scripts/tools/developers/ debian@beaglebone:/opt/scripts/tools/developers$ sudo ./update_bootloader.sh debian@beaglebone:/opt/scripts/tools/developers$ sudo reboot

U-Boot Capes added:
NHD-7.0CTP-CAPE Family BB-BONE-NH7C-01-A0.dtbo (first added in: 2017.05-rc2-00002-g86566339a9 (Apr 28 2017 - 10:18:57))

U-Boot /boot/uEnv.txt configuration
/boot/uEnv.txt: enable_uboot_overlays=1

U-Boot Disable on-board devices
To Disable eMMC: disable_uboot_overlay_emmc=1

To Disable HDMI VIDEO & AUDIO: disable_uboot_overlay_video=1

To Disable HDMI AUDIO: disable_uboot_overlay_audio=1

To Disable WL1835: disable_uboot_overlay_wireless=1

To Disable BB-ADC: (first added in: 2017.05-rc1-00002-g35aecb22fe (Apr 05 2017 - 16:51:58)) disable_uboot_overlay_adc=1

U-Boot Override external capes
Cape device tree overlays: https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/

uboot_overlay_addr0=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo uboot_overlay_addr1=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo uboot_overlay_addr2=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo uboot_overlay_addr3=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo

If for some reason you need to disable the auto-loading of any of ^ those, use the option that matches your addrX: (first added in: 2017.03-00002-gbfe60d6057 (Mar 28 2017 - 15:32:51)) disable_uboot_overlay_addr0=1 disable_uboot_overlay_addr1=1 disable_uboot_overlay_addr2=1 disable_uboot_overlay_addr3=1

4 more capes can be loaded via: (first added in: 2017.03-00002-gbfe60d6057 (Mar 28 2017 - 15:32:51)) uboot_overlay_addr4=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo uboot_overlay_addr5=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo uboot_overlay_addr6=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo uboot_overlay_addr7=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo

Plus one custom cape: dtb_overlay=/lib/firmware/ .dtbo

U-Boot PRU Options
With v4.4.x-ti/v4.9.x-ti PRU via remoteproc can be enabled by: uboot_overlay_pru=/lib/firmware/AM335X-PRU-RPROC-4-4-TI-00A0.dtbo

With mainline (boneX) PRU via uio uboot_overlay_pru=/lib/firmware/AM335X-PRU-UIO-00A0.dtbo

U-Boot Cape Universal
Utilize https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/beaglebone-universal-io config-pin.

Cape Universal Supported Boards: BeagleBone Black BeagleBone Black Wireless BeagleBone Green BeagleBone Green Wireless Element14 BeagleBone Black Industrial MENTOREL BeagleBone uSomIQ SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced

Not Supported needs work/testing/etc Arrow BeagleBone Black Industrial (different video phy) Neuromeka BeagleBone Air (untested)

To enable, in /boot/uEnv.txt add: enable_uboot_cape_universal=1

= 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/2017-05-28/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-05-28-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-05-28-4gb* 0762081ad04932a2a21204a0d583791c3d92a6c33ed5c88a173a722a669c7a72 bbx15-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-05-28-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-05-28-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

= Debian Image Testing Snapshots =

microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Based on Debian Jessie with 3.8.x kernel
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/machinekit/bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* 18361e0426715974b5a0e7f014ff1bf26db2421cbf8d61622efd2856cd8c6214 bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Based on Debian Jessie with 4.4.x kernel
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/machinekit/bone-debian-8.8-machinekit-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.8-machinekit-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 5afaeb2c83904aa30b2ec7d2946b7a7bdf8a6215368263611cf6854c2e7c636c bone-debian-8.8-machinekit-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.8-machinekit-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2017-06-04 notes * U-Boot: v2017.05 * Kernel: 4.4.68-ti-r107

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 8cd739ed7168a7b73a0aadaf5cf6b3c77c3fbc1672529c77cf4fdd398df4ea67 BBB-blank-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.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/2017-06-04/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* d5beeb132b580a95913bddc340ddf596d40617bef7008d8cee967dd2a67a2001 bone-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.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/2017-06-04/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* c613a0fc26010eece6ad83e210a2ea3f6334da18a274d0fdf1a9223c2180200c bbx15-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.8-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-2gb) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.8-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-06-04-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.8-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-06-04-2gb* d2882fe26bd135ec1892e495182f60157dfec88c6aaea2cd2dec8d8eaa10dc8d bone-debian-8.8-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-06-04-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.8-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-06-04-2gb.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/2017-06-04/lxqt-xm-4gb/bbxm-debian-8.8-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbxm-debian-8.8-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 48eb61b1de07ae880228683dc21410bee80d94c7ce8ce2c053cffd1a5e185664 bbxm-debian-8.8-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbxm-debian-8.8-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 391bac7e9f5b32e1a5cab932888ba4719b715b79aed1d3ece940248b802d1c42 BBB-blank-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.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/2017-06-04/iot/bone-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 9d658e9b4ff45d01c738f313513208174df3e433d23e6c17de97559f3cce5f5c bone-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (iot) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/iot/bbx15-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 76a0317a8608df33c614a1ebb96c52651d8e61534b4350fea639bb58168f2a28 bbx15-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.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/2017-06-04/console/bone-debian-8.8-console-armhf-2017-06-04-1gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.8-console-armhf-2017-06-04-1gb* b7b59621672dee5e15eac14f4b5f239974beef05f8748b48dc371a55834fbcdb bone-debian-8.8-console-armhf-2017-06-04-1gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.8-console-armhf-2017-06-04-1gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/console/bbx15-debian-8.8-console-armhf-2017-06-04-1gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.8-console-armhf-2017-06-04-1gb* 71adc6ae51aeea0bb7b161128ae2969ea018e46d76f53064be6c47432753eb34 bbx15-debian-8.8-console-armhf-2017-06-04-1gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.8-console-armhf-2017-06-04-1gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Stretch testing
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch

2017-06-04 notes * U-Boot: v2017.05 * Kernel: 4.4.68-ti-r107

Flasher: (stretch-iot) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/stretch-iot/BBB-blank-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 9d4e321a75ee2244e6fdccd5a95321c95f8ff0b9745070a00639cd11f3bb20cc BBB-blank-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/stretch-iot/bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 796c69a0e0e182394567fc5e897638a96a681a86ce8876028f6b35eba29be1dd bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-iot) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/stretch-iot/bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 5613e1e814149639c0911a6cf6850047ce3cb49fcb8ff950c8121b24e28a4445 bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (stretch-lxqt) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/stretch-lxqt/BBB-blank-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 6243e0509da72dc4c558f7141b07fb6e3bae0cfbd8ebbb2d15f56cd5980a8b30 BBB-blank-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-lxqt) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/stretch-lxqt/bone-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 5d159ead6fba10c67d5530490846a3a9919088e87bca61aae16930532d81100f bone-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-lxqt) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-06-04/stretch-lxqt/bbx15-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb* 9da9ca0b877d6d65e3354f0ebd46bbacccb5a9777d42d3a260d415bcd70689d7 bbx15-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-06-04-4gb.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