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/2016-05-01/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb* fb0a20a22f6c4ea3c73cf32d507db82a0ec543ce836383f2c7421bacbbb206dd bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap 34444ae8e20ba489c29323f43d8e6e480b8794a03e6d3457a840061e7409efbc bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.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/2016-04-10/machinekit/bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-04-10/machinekit/bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb* c6f74f2240ecbf77f5ee79f5963893b118a100fa5dd7f3d6d6b29e9513bc9762 bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb.bmap d1ccdae7562ac346d78f74d048aef05a831becbef5b14128ec838db52e9e1ee5 bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bone-debian-7.10-machinekit-armhf-2016-04-10-4gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

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/2016-05-01/machinekit/bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/machinekit/bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb* 0eb3fb7254187bac2bdd851fb55f2d3f276bfcaa1d45e797267bb0091c2462c0 bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap 041a9515d77cdf6b30108f1c26adc02e9220a9b346cdd97635c4f104f291ffbb bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-machinekit-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2016-05-01 notes * U-Boot: v2016.03 * Kernel: 4.4.8-ti-r22

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb* 10af356cd54f41c51f436f0b99964dc4fdf709186ff9cc755724de5d9b9e826a bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap 1f6ed055a2058569177e72080c72fee06d5649bd475f26dab410ca494d98ca95 bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.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/2016-05-01/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb* fb0a20a22f6c4ea3c73cf32d507db82a0ec543ce836383f2c7421bacbbb206dd bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap 34444ae8e20ba489c29323f43d8e6e480b8794a03e6d3457a840061e7409efbc bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.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/2016-05-01/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb* ff470e4e18c39012b73c0c9a9efd31ba8f419fd412b81ec985c78e07f9b24c82 bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap 9839e5900cf839cfd50334c1a45ed6a591e9439945fa4461ea01a924e99948de bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.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/2016-05-01/iot/bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/iot/bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb* e017b0f17680bec5127536412f9e515c47d77b62ab4257cc83a6a7a3b1fa5edf bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.bmap 65d8472ab53269a6c3126af49d90f6a346e4ff5d739f6788f4b0d1e6d078499c bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-iot-armhf-2016-05-01-4gb.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/2016-05-01/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb* 0d89531792122d004218bda7ad4fc2114fe0c4abf54b32f43a459e715e9443fb BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap 5660793770f3e7f28a6d32ce622df9cd30a7ee0931d425a86f183ef084334dc5 BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.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/2016-05-01/console/bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/console/bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb* 0898339e5c841e39c71a24cfc26ac31e5d4f0775fb9015c8fa76b1f54a912c00 bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap ce129ba6b9236ea4074b92a19aca5e89d42f0ce8e1073788e07a49d8da57070e bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/console/bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/console/bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb* 99a1f1e1009b3f8a1ccede1875bad4112115547c0e325988357a3cd0c2ae785a bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap 836e02aee54f956caffaadb1dd46c642e635b91c83460bf5458eda5ebb642d09 bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/console/bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-05-01/console/bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb* cff30bfb8f3b95de240532f27349511bfd45ad75df8760cca3024f40bbcf8319 bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.bmap ca3d803c0b80cdde160c3dcde250b993310d39b916db801200df505000427a3d bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz

Linux: (bmaptool 3.2) sudo bmaptool copy bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.img.xz /dev/sdX

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.4-console-armhf-2016-05-01-2gb.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