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

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 2017.05-rc1-00002-g35aecb22fe (Apr 05 2017 - 16:51:58) Trying to boot from MMC2 U-Boot 2017.05-rc1-00002-g35aecb22fe (Apr 05 2017 - 16:51:58 -0500), Build: jenkins-github_Bootloader-Builder-541

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:[eMMC-(default)]:[/dev/mmcblk1]:[U-Boot 2017.05-rc1-00002-g35aecb]

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 /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: https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-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 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

Not Supported needs work/testing/etc Arrow BeagleBone Black Industrial (different video phy) SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced (different network phy/mdio/cpsw) Neuromeka BeagleBone Air (untested)

To enable, in /boot/uEnv.txt add: enable_uboot_cape_universal=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

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/2017-04-23/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 137201d5bedf34af7120bdf511ca6482cfd05130d70ba7d63829315fa646c28a bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

= Debian Image Testing Snapshots =

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

microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Based on Debian Jessie with 4.4.x kernel
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/machinekit/bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 0b48b8316503887df53e7ce9352dfd73a28866639e37cafa8c66261bf7733991 bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2017-04-23 notes * U-Boot: v2017.05-rc2 * Kernel: 4.4.62-ti-r99

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* e2fea11369d2c1a7314d529fd9bccd719ead803a864409c9686e04fb4d7fd898 BBB-blank-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.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/2017-04-23/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* b8e6afb03d3a949c5a7a3573e727ab11c319e7c429fd1e3a67f42d2b2f93f6c7 bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.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/2017-04-23/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 137201d5bedf34af7120bdf511ca6482cfd05130d70ba7d63829315fa646c28a bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.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/2017-04-23/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-04-23-2gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-04-23-2gb* bd7f22370a3898bd5d81a91e2f5688293efef89764cae75468149dc32327508d bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-04-23-2gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-04-23-2gb.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/2017-04-23/lxqt-xm-4gb/bbxm-debian-8.7-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbxm-debian-8.7-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* edc4ed787e9e9947cea05ff2ff412764d83cf69fe76c436efec24572770639db bbxm-debian-8.7-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbxm-debian-8.7-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

U-Boot Overlay Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-uboot-overlay-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-uboot-overlay-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 9a7ad3f26f0c57bb135d83960483e89b76294e2b54e6a5c589caa7467b8e5200 BBB-blank-uboot-overlay-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-uboot-overlay-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 04dea292777105e4a3ed1ea766680423ad44a779e3f4647dce2cd3aef4c7b785 BBB-blank-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.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/2017-04-23/iot/bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 35ed8557e79e1cb3e007f3c7775e630298f0b8ca3464f6bf647105ee1f1fc35b bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

U-Boot Overlay Flasher: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/iot/BBB-blank-uboot-overlay-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-uboot-overlay-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* e68186c40d903487e4f43c493ac645748a3d42d38ab0263e28e659eab9051bd4 BBB-blank-uboot-overlay-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-uboot-overlay-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.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/2017-04-23/console/bone-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-04-23-1gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-04-23-1gb* ada0b0125520d0cb26092c9d46eae2d992cff265a2775afa5784adb7a0e1198f bone-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-04-23-1gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-04-23-1gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/console/bbx15-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-04-23-1gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-04-23-1gb* a4d7ad371ea2ec7bd107a04527f24e5574af818809040e30fc43af42ea675fae bbx15-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-04-23-1gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-04-23-1gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

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

2017-04-23 notes * U-Boot: v2017.05-rc2 * Kernel: 4.4.62-ti-r99

Flasher: (stretch-iot) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/stretch-iot/BBB-blank-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 66d749dd841fdfc57bc1d57d88e7f2e184f3fe4e3f10d40447f2264daa8409d3 BBB-blank-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/stretch-iot/bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 6a41285d4875d4d3b8722d222d445ddc52a362d47a4aeedeb7adfb96e189f7df bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-iot) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/stretch-iot/bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* f180aff9327eaaa8a7055797f797ef805bbbff0fe077e72a6e7c1065180a2ad4 bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

Flasher: (stretch-lxqt) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/stretch-lxqt/BBB-blank-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 7a08c569b6b33f8ef58fc40b0aa954f121d244fbec74a5f47d2e3a2fe11fe793 BBB-blank-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat BBB-blank-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-lxqt) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/stretch-lxqt/bone-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bone-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 29ea2f1c107905ab4cc40f19afcbedd27f02bab38d9f88a69b06e722453dba5b bone-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bone-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX

microSD/Standalone: (stretch-lxqt) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image: wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-23/stretch-lxqt/bbx15-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

Verify Image with: sha256sum bbx15-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb* 812570cc2994686d33eb5a7310229adee67494abc232313a7e9f4502b292e4c6 bbx15-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz

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

Linux: (dd) xzcat bbx15-debian-stretch-lxqt-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.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