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-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/2.1.1/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.

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-$(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.net/
Download archive-keyring: wget https://repos.rcn-ee.net/debian/pool/main/r/rcn-ee-archive-keyring/rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2015.05.06~bpo70+20150506+1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2015.05.06~bpo70+20150506+1_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

BBB Rev C (4GB eMMC) 4GB eMMC Flasher
Flasher: (lxde-4gb) wget https://rcn-ee.com/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) (159Mb free on 2GB eMMC) (Due to limited space, the default Web Browser is NOT installed in the 2GB image.) wget https://rcn-ee.com/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.com/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) Standalone
microSD/Standalone: (lxde) wget https://rcn-ee.com/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.com/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 =

BBW/BBB (All Revs) Machinekit
microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/machinekit/bone-debian-7.8-machinekit-armhf-2015-05-17-4gb.img.xz md5sum: bd364c46b279805737be88a2222390a2

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone Black 4GB eMMC) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/lxqt-4gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.0-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-05-17-4gb.img.xz md5sum: 0cf9edf3869ea7ce11cd5d8b74e820f0

Flasher: (lxqt-2gb) (BeagleBone Black 2GB eMMC) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/lxqt-2gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.0-lxqt-armhf-2015-05-17-2gb.img.xz md5sum: c7b2583d958a214fd8534dcdc7775c32

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard/BeagleBoard xM) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/lxqt-4gb/bb-debian-8.0-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-05-17-4gb.img.xz md5sum: 084d238cc041d81feae242991a5e5b28

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.0-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-05-17-4gb.img.xz md5sum: daf3660fd4b6776838fa3eb86f2d0a65

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.0-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-05-17-4gb.img.xz md5sum: eb8432557b28976ae66ac53ee58372d9

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (omap5-uevm) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/lxqt-4gb/omap5-uevm-debian-8.0-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-05-17-4gb.img.xz md5sum: b26855aaca1cea0e4ef4d360d7fa7c9e

Jessie Snapshot console
Flasher: (console) (BeagleBone Black eMMC) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-17-2gb.img.xz md5sum: bd53c584d1474a5e348b58c3a76ad35b

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard/BeagleBoard xM) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/console/bb-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-17-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 8be8625ba7ae67fcc91b56ffa8bcc269

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/console/bone-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-17-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 07d4984aa92459f617e7615429779068

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/console/bbx15-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-17-2gb.img.xz md5sum: b53408c7dd30fef864acb5cd98d5dfa3

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (omap5-uevm) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-05-17/console/omap5-uevm-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-17-2gb.img.xz md5sum: 58a015669499113b009d97e76fdaf330

= 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

3.8.x
beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/3.8

3.8.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black FULL Cape Support
sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep 3.8.13-bone sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-boneX

3.8.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black FULL Cape Support + Xenomai
sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep 3.8.13-xenomai sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-xenomai-rX

3.14.x-ti
beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/3.14

Based on: http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=ti-linux-kernel/ti-linux-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ti-linux-3.14.y

3.14.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15
sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep ti-r | grep -v ti-rt sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.14.XX-ti-rX

3.14.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 + RT
sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep ti-rt sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.14.XX-ti-rtX

3.14.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 + Xenomai
sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep ti-xenomai sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.14.XX-ti-xenomai-rX

4.0.x BeagleBoard / BeagleBoard xM
sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep 4.0 | grep armv7 | grep -v lpae sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.0.XX-armv7-rX

4.0.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black
sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep 4.0 | grep bone sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.0.XX-boneX

4.0.x BeagleBoard-X15
sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep 4.0 | grep lpae sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.0.XX-armv7-lpae-rX

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