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
Contents
- 1 Checking The Debian Image Version
- 2 Installing
- 3 FAQ
- 4 Debian Build Instructions
- 5 Debian Releases
- 6 Debian Image Testing Snapshots
- 6.1 2017-02-12
- 6.1.1 BBW/BBB (All Revs) Machinekit
- 6.1.2 Jessie Snapshot lxqt
- 6.1.2.1 Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
- 6.1.2.2 microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants)
- 6.1.2.3 microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)
- 6.1.2.4 microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-2gb) (All BeagleBone Variants)
- 6.1.2.5 microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-xm-4gb) (BeagleBoard xM)
- 6.1.3 Jessie Snapshot iot
- 6.1.4 Jessie Snapshot console
- 6.1.5 Stretch testing
- 6.1 2017-02-12
- 7 Kernel Options
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:
##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher: #cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
Change to:
##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher: cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
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 #deb-src [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main
To:
#deb [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main #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/2017-02-05/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-05-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-05-4gb* 66c785cd91c6a16ad2ea6d0e8b50c81cc1c2c940dc85283b841cc7923981235c bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-05-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-05-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Debian Image Testing Snapshots
2017-02-12
BBW/BBB (All Revs) Machinekit
microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Based on Debian Jessie
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
Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2017-02-12 notes
* U-Boot: v2017.03-rc1 * Kernel: 4.4.48-ti-r88
Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (All BeagleBone Variants with a 4GB eMMC)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/lxqt-4gb/BBB-blank-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* b9716dc1a8e3ad6231964ff33b1a0bd26e5aff11b84430b67845ec1561718a3c BBB-blank-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.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/2017-02-12/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* 7d4f62df15343798f9fab15c01cdd496e552b9321c87839916a9dbf555069196 bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.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/2017-02-12/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* e32ebf316a6154024431dc5f65f00c1ac7e444a749ca8f0b034a8a71bbbec1c0 bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbx15-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.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/2017-02-12/lxqt-2gb/bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb* c482d5d28221226b5699915c0fecd04c18bf6d2f9079e07332e8a600296e1012 bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.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/2017-02-12/lxqt-xm-4gb/bbxm-debian-8.7-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbxm-debian-8.7-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* ea612fa992da667ef875d6e49fe8892470a9526831a1693e4f2ff91f8e7683b8 bbxm-debian-8.7-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbxm-debian-8.7-lxqt-xm-4gb-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Jessie Snapshot iot
Flasher: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum BBB-blank-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* e92508085fd5d9fddb9445d6eeace3df7c993643b7f1d22fcf88054f130dd39a BBB-blank-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat BBB-blank-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.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/2017-02-12/iot/bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* 55aeac141a6da37c0f4c2ece093f637145a40ca4119325cfe5aab59780786a55 bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Jessie Snapshot console
microSD/Standalone: (console) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/console/bone-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb* 2215ae42637a6d04fc4b267e4793d154a0e9e08338982dbf9a7104b793004bb2 bone-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/console/bbx15-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbx15-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb* 2dfc3690c7f8a4ffd0a0da0aab4061a8601a4431a1b4e9a3a5d207d7e01d8aec bbx15-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbx15-debian-8.7-console-armhf-2017-02-12-2gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
Stretch testing
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch
2017-02-12 notes
* U-Boot: v2017.03-rc1 * Kernel: 4.9.8-ti-r20
microSD/Standalone: (testing) (All BeagleBone Variants)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/stretch-iot/bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* d5bca319a77314895cd58be7cf402890fbffca9500aa26ff82dd8f124198a914 bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bone-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX
microSD/Standalone: (testing) (BeagleBoard-X15)
Get prebuilt image:
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/stretch-iot/bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Verify Image with:
sha256sum bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb* 286d6591eeeb1f5dd16137bc8ab2de9d48f980818d67becb09ae59e99f35fb9a bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
Windows/Mac/Linux gui
http://etcher.io
Linux: (dd)
xzcat bbx15-debian-stretch-iot-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.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 <branch> sudo apt-get install linux-image-<specific version> sudo reboot
Latest kernel script
cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./update_kernel.sh <OPTIONS>
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