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"

echo 'something' | sudo tee /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

= 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/2017-01-08/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* e5d29dce52352afdac347c413278528937d0f5e038e16494a90f95d4ae83558d bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

= Debian Image Testing Snapshots =

microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Classic
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-08/machinekit/bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* d27996fe4145937cc2764774a4a9fa86b669d27aa0bebb0e180553d53e15c7b3 bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-7.11-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.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/2017-01-08/machinekit/bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* 22898af99d90523fe3c885780778861eb560cc91d9ab545440ceb18c875d6a83 bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-machinekit-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2017-01-08 notes * U-Boot: v2017.01-rc3 * Kernel: 4.4.40-ti-r80

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-08/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* 48abb83e94851883ce45de181c9c6b2b8dbf94a3dafda46ed48c62ac3073160e BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.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/2017-01-08/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* fe2548dc62f764b9990966e484f1b0e27e3298d86f4271e76c32520aedd43d71 bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.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/2017-01-08/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* e5d29dce52352afdac347c413278528937d0f5e038e16494a90f95d4ae83558d bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.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/2017-01-08/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb* be17fc4c50e4c808f5997fc632b75690776ae02bbe17b9f4a09fe065f990bf78 bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.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/2017-01-08/lxqt-xm-4gb/bbxm-debian-8.6-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbxm-debian-8.6-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* 6246fb5a6d7857bd1f7d7dcc40247213ab027fba9370398c22ec575c988193f6 bbxm-debian-8.6-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbxm-debian-8.6-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-08/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* 36adb3f4c98a6229246b1aa0152c15f56876e750bd6ac5b928b478d240da47f8 BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.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/2017-01-08/iot/bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* c51deb3a2840d2b7a8d8535198ead0cb922b6968dfeaccd8eff82a788bc79ef4 bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.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/2017-01-08/console/bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb* c24803f37029f9838971e435f892a698b82d2d34086ddb227b166eda7aac5bcc bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-08/console/bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb* 272f84e988d1d4e4c190f5ed0cd4856b423f0bb926dbc5201f0aa0579ed74846 bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.6-console-armhf-2017-01-08-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

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

2017-01-08 notes * U-Boot: v2017.01-rc3 * Kernel: 4.9.0-ti-r13

microSD/Standalone: (testing) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-08/stretch-iot/bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* 2951733dba3ce561e99296d01cd025da5072e820f8f2157078ce29170ef8bbb5 bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (testing) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-08/stretch-iot/bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb* 7acc303d22f8675bcd70f92aa135ed8ab40b3b4474fc85346225a2475094d2d1 bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-01-08-4gb.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