Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Debian

This page is about running the armhf port of Debian distribution at BeagleBoard. The latest 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-arm-downloads-2187472.html

debian repo: https://github.com/rcn-ee/repos/tree/master/oracle-java8-installer

Install: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Verify: debian@beaglebone:~$ java -version java version "1.8.0_33" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_33-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.33-b05, mixed mode)

Older rootfs (when above package doesn't exist): wget https://repos.rcn-ee.net/debian/pool/main/o/oracle-java8-installer/oracle-java8-installer_8u31%2b8u33arm-1~bpo70%2b20150121%2b1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i oracle-java8-installer_8u31%2b8u33arm-1~bpo70%2b20150121%2b1_all.deb

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/2.1.0/ti_cgt_pru_2.1.0_armlinuxa8hf_busybox_installer.sh chmod +x ti_cgt_pru_2.1.0_armlinuxa8hf_busybox_installer.sh sudo ./ti_cgt_pru_2.1.0_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.

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

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.net/
Download archive-keyring: wget https://repos.rcn-ee.net/debian/pool/main/r/rcn-ee-archive-keyring/rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2015.01.28~bpo70%2b20150213%2b1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2015.01.28~bpo70%2b20150213%2b1_all.deb

Add repo to /etc/apt/sources.list sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [arch=armhf] http://repos.rcn-ee.net/debian wheezy main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list" sudo sh -c "echo '#deb-src [arch=armhf] http://repos.rcn-ee.net/debian wheezy main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"

Update packages: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install npm --reinstall

= 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

= Debian Releases = http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

2015-03-01 Release Notes
* U-Boot: v2015.01 ** U-Boot UMS (USB Mass Storage) enabled [ums 0 mmc 1] * Kernel: 3.8.13-bone70

Simpler Kernel Upgrades: sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-bone70 ; sudo reboot

Kernel Headers included: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.8.13-bone70

3rd party module list: sudo apt-get install mt7601u-modules-3.8.13-bone70

3rd party repo added: https://github.com/rcn-ee/repos am335x-pru-package ap-hotspot dart-1.8 (stable 1.8 branch) dart-edge (git master branch) oracle-java8-installer ti-pru-cgt-installer xenomai-runtime cloud9-installer

BBB Rev C (4GB eMMC)
Flasher: (lxde-4gb) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-03-01/lxde-4gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img.xz md5sum: 38bedfc81de00907ff2913b04bdc6fe9

BBB (All Revs) eMMC Flashers
Flasher: (lxde) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-03-01/lxde/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-lxde-armhf-2015-03-01-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 66b613cbbde282520f940a12ecf7f6a8

Flasher: (console) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-03-01/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-console-armhf-2015-03-01-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 81585efeaf183106d6dcc6d39127e190

BBW/BBB (All Revs)
microSD/Standalone: (lxde) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-03-01/lxde-4gb/bone-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img.xz md5sum: c848627722b7a5f7bc89791cc8949e3b

microSD/Standalone: (console) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-03-01/console/bone-debian-7.8-console-armhf-2015-03-01-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 10823cb21e6fc4536ff87605dc50ea6e

= Debian Image Testing Snapshots =

2015-03-08 Release Notes
* U-Boot: v2015.01 ** U-Boot UMS (USB Mass Storage) enabled [ums 0 mmc 1] * Kernel: 3.8.13-bone70

Simpler Kernel Upgrades: sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-bone70 ; sudo reboot

Kernel Headers included: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.8.13-bone70

3rd party module list: sudo apt-get install mt7601u-modules-3.8.13-bone70

3rd party repo added: https://github.com/rcn-ee/repos am335x-pru-package ap-hotspot dart-1.8 (stable 1.8 branch) dart-edge (git master branch) oracle-java8-installer ti-pru-cgt-installer xenomai-runtime cloud9-installer

BBB Rev C (4GB eMMC)
Flasher: (lxde-4gb) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/lxde-4gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-08-4gb.img.xz md5sum: dc744da89f80d6b9f576eb51231f08ab

BBB (All Revs) eMMC Flashers
Flasher: (lxde) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/lxde/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-lxde-armhf-2015-03-08-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 71c79e94a8124f687505438a7cf67022

Flasher: (console) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-console-armhf-2015-03-08-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 9bb15d19d2402f819a8a01459859e649

BBW/BBB (All Revs)
microSD/Standalone: (lxde) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/lxde-4gb/bone-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-08-4gb.img.xz md5sum: 7db9e848f4853bbab51a3466e9fce9f5

microSD/Standalone: (console) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/console/bone-debian-7.8-console-armhf-2015-03-08-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 08d4fe60e4bcba2874e4355a22b6e351

BBW/BBB (All Revs) Machinekit
microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/machinekit/bone-debian-7.8-machinekit-armhf-2015-03-08-4gb.img.xz md5sum: a17e3315df408995276d6b62360cf6de

Jessie Snapshot
Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone Black 4GB eMMC) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/lxqt-4gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-jessie-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-03-08-4gb.img.xz md5sum: 8c79563b5e4a4b733f3a7f010a167049

Flasher: (lxqt-2gb) (BeagleBone Black 2GB eMMC) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/lxqt-2gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-jessie-lxqt-armhf-2015-03-08-2gb.img.xz md5sum: b50fab9dd08eac14f9d448e666e49bcb

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-jessie-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-03-08-4gb.img.xz md5sum: 206d6fe8c7b13e79bd24a474e2b2caeb

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-jessie-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-03-08-4gb.img.xz md5sum: 13e828845f77bc11434351d7ecda1e0b

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (omap5-uevm) wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-03-08/lxqt-4gb/omap5-uevm-debian-jessie-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-03-08-4gb.img.xz md5sum: 90a543075b80ae732b480c363723346a