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_151" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)

Oracle Java 9: no ARM binaries listed: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk9-downloads-3848520.html

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 =

PocketBeagle Support
Any images after 2017-09-21 will have support for the PocketBeagle

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 || true 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. Login as debian (password = temppwd) and edit /boot/uEnv.txt with nano (sudo nano /boot/uEnv.txt) or your preferred editor.

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, otherwise it'll just keep on re-flashing the eMMC)

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
WARNING, this is now deprecated, please use U-Boot overlays

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 2018.01-rc2-00002-g23388d96ac (Dec 19 2017 - 13:20:06) Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00002-g23388d96ac (Dec 19 2017 - 13:20:06 -0600), Build: jenkins-github_Bootloader-Builder-19

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 2018.01-rc2-00002-g23388d]

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 (src): https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/ Debian package: bb-cape-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 PRU via remoteproc can be enabled by: uboot_overlay_pru=/lib/firmware/AM335X-PRU-RPROC-4-4-TI-00A0.dtbo

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

With v4.14.x-ti PRU via remoteproc can be enabled by: uboot_overlay_pru=/lib/firmware/AM335X-PRU-RPROC-4-14-TI-00A0.dtbo

With (all (minus bugs)): 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

Where did the slots file go?
Kernel Overlays are going bye-bye, too many bugs, too many race conditions, no kernel maintainers interested. We've said our farewells and U-Boot Overlays is the way forward: https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#U-Boot_Overlays With multiple parties working on the U-Boot infrastructure.

The rough transition plan is:

Stage 1: Disable Kernel Overlays (bone_capemgr.uboot_capemgr_enabled=1 is passed thru /proc/cmdline) Stage 2: Disable the slots file (/sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots) (v4.4.x -> 4.14.x) Stage 3: Disable bone_capemgr dir (/sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/) (v4.15.x+)

Stage 1 is complete, all current images use U-Boot Overlays by default. Stage 2 is currently in progress, as it is not recommended to "load" anything into the slots file while U-Boot Overlays are in control. Stage 3, will take longer, as many applications only need to know the "bone_capemgr" directory is available.

If you don't like the direction we are heading, simply disable, "enable_uboot_overlays=1" in /boot/uEnv.txt..


 * 1) I will be on my own with Kernel Overlays:
 * 2) enable_uboot_overlays=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

= Debian Image Testing Snapshots =

To turn “microSD/Standalone” images into eMMC flasher images, edit the /boot/uEnv.txt file on the Linux partition on the microSD card and uncomment the line with cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh. Enabling this will cause booting the microSD card to flash the eMMC. “Flasher” images already enable this line. See Flashing eMMC

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

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2018-10-01 notes * U-Boot: v2018.09 * default username:password is [debian:temppwd]

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb* e6a1994bdf8969053b3c501e56c8e4c3feed0d5b1b1f8738f4c85cdb3dddc25c BBB-blank-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants & PocketBeagle)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb* da944c65491ef13ba37fa251a0832caa681daa44e3b9afabc9e965d4c57ecc56 bone-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb* 63d30655a5e2985e3e1639c8baa51e1a2b4d7877a7ce1b61163e58c9b6a79037 bbx15-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.11-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-2gb) (All BeagleBone Variants & PocketBeagle)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.11-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2018-10-01-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.11-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2018-10-01-2gb* f42b2322656a420d1c0bdf37d83fc2594d5b0496f4f489069dcc9550f6ae2eb5 bone-debian-8.11-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2018-10-01-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.11-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2018-10-01-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (lxqt-2gb) (All BeagleBone Variants)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/lxqt-2gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.11-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2018-10-01-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.11-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2018-10-01-2gb* e6d77be15df260bb406b7be6ac1968ed006778c6872ca2f333abbcd35a6c44fb BBB-blank-debian-8.11-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2018-10-01-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.11-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2018-10-01-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-xm-4gb) (BeagleBoard xM)

 * Kernel: 4.18.10-armv7-x10

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/lxqt-xm-4gb/bbxm-debian-8.11-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbxm-debian-8.11-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb* 46191deaaab7e7acadd63db9576e8a7b65a972dde9e152e779bc80886ada8848 bbxm-debian-8.11-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbxm-debian-8.11-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb* af108332b983df18f0c1943a426b2f1b980d4f5ea9ccf5b02e4c62101f03432c BBB-blank-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants & PocketBeagle)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/iot/bone-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb* 1b20f64beab82cfb529f7712396b6fc674b03ffd5ee420e27a6f4ff61a128497 bone-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (iot) (BeagleBoard-X15)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/iot/bbx15-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb* deefe28ac31f0c660df6ca3de674d70b55eee3c2643477ac91668b8f7d899932 bbx15-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.11-iot-armhf-2018-10-01-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (All BeagleBone Variants & PocketBeagle)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/console/bone-debian-8.11-console-armhf-2018-10-01-1gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.11-console-armhf-2018-10-01-1gb* 1e384d95fce47acca3a8283095908eb0bdbab485985997275f108f224d8e7bbf bone-debian-8.11-console-armhf-2018-10-01-1gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.11-console-armhf-2018-10-01-1gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)

 * Kernel: 4.4.113-ti-r149

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-01/console/bbx15-debian-8.11-console-armhf-2018-10-01-1gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.11-console-armhf-2018-10-01-1gb* a35aa50aaa92e5bbb36f63dff1edd302c3365e36a877116c7e1bd0255d68da38 bbx15-debian-8.11-console-armhf-2018-10-01-1gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.11-console-armhf-2018-10-01-1gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Debian 9 (Stretch) - Weekly
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch

2018-10-14 notes * U-Boot: v2018.09 * default username:password is [debian:temppwd]

microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Based on Debian Stretch with 4.14.x rt kernel with U-Boot Overlays
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-machinekit/bone-debian-9.5-machinekit-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-9.5-machinekit-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb* 48451faa5ed9dee0843ae6048692575752e21b7a012582352e522fe46c495718 bone-debian-9.5-machinekit-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-9.5-machinekit-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (stretch-lxqt) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-lxqt/BBB-blank-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb* 451403b5eafd59ade6ca2dcb8db0e55b7c4cf8cfdae71be1b378115fb4b6291d BBB-blank-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-lxqt) (All BeagleBone Variants & PocketBeagle)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-lxqt/bone-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb* 3a8b40e8e1be026dc6f1903c6640630c93189a13d3982d5cdcac04ea25895377 bone-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-lxqt) (BeagleBoard-X15)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-lxqt/bbx15-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb* a41f8368d627822ff3a6bf78d283087a81c9a208e9476c076979ad796d37f695 bbx15-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-9.5-lxqt-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-lxqt-xm) (BeagleBoard xM)

 * Kernel: 4.18.13-armv7-x14

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-lxqt-xm/bbxm-debian-9.5-lxqt-xm-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbxm-debian-9.5-lxqt-xm-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb* 17b29fd8f4a03192dc9ed2a2740b52f53ef9cc1bd24c665d6b97c61d39b43f63 bbxm-debian-9.5-lxqt-xm-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbxm-debian-9.5-lxqt-xm-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (stretch-iot) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-iot/BBB-blank-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb* a899ad01709913aca5546ea4ebe2333b7dc092e18620b020c6053af592a35e53 BBB-blank-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-iot) (All BeagleBone Variants & PocketBeagle)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-iot/bone-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb* 66f8fdc70818d5bf8cd51a74abea1a5d9d1d00a6ac07c2ac9d57552f5329291d bone-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-iot) (BeagleBoard-X15)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-iot/bbx15-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb* 466d2b2228be3eb36c492a418e428da4dfa6d805c6d7c57ef67d8b4ac33f2734 bbx15-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-9.5-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-console) (All BeagleBone Variants & PocketBeagle)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-console/bone-debian-9.5-console-armhf-2018-10-14-1gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-9.5-console-armhf-2018-10-14-1gb* b66f04587d8b2e99bb7c30314874a51245ede61a05b7e3fe1beddfffb7db0e6e bone-debian-9.5-console-armhf-2018-10-14-1gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-9.5-console-armhf-2018-10-14-1gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-console) (BeagleBoard-X15)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/stretch-console/bbx15-debian-9.5-console-armhf-2018-10-14-1gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-9.5-console-armhf-2018-10-14-1gb* 1995fb4bd0152393fb611dd89c4714f3371fa64c2e246dd16bd08a9ac0e41f8d bbx15-debian-9.5-console-armhf-2018-10-14-1gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-9.5-console-armhf-2018-10-14-1gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

ROS (ROS Melodic Morenia) - Weekly
http://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation

2018-10-14 notes * U-Boot: v2018.09 * default username:password is [beagle:temppwd]

microSD/Standalone: (bionic-ros-iot) (All BeagleBone Variants & PocketBeagle)

 * Kernel: 4.14.71-ti-rt-r80

Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-10-14/bionic-ros-iot/bone-ubuntu-18.04.1-ros-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-6gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-ubuntu-18.04.1-ros-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-6gb* 7bc075919320b55cc694e3b9ba9d268b38b95c6d8b9ee60e55a227530d6f9f74 bone-ubuntu-18.04.1-ros-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-6gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-ubuntu-18.04.1-ros-iot-armhf-2018-10-14-6gb.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

4.9.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

4.9.x-ti All BeagleBone Variants and BeagleBoard-X15 + RT --ti-rt-channel --lts-4_9

4.14.x-ti
beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/4.14

4.14.x-ti All BeagleBone Variants and BeagleBoard-X15 --ti-channel --lts-4_14

4.14.x-ti All BeagleBone Variants and BeagleBoard-X15 + RT --ti-rt-channel --lts-4_14

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

4.9.x All BeagleBone Variants + RT --bone-rt-kernel --lts-4_9

Mainline (4.14.x lts)
4.14.x All BeagleBone Variants --bone-kernel --lts-4_14

4.14.x All BeagleBone Variants + RT --bone-rt-kernel --lts-4_14

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