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
- 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 setup 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
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-$(shell uname -r)
Loading custom capes
Due to limitations in debian wheezy's userspace, the use of an initramfs, and having firmware builtin to the kernel. It is currently not possible to load "custom" capes via: capemgr.enable_partno=xyz. Instead an init script has been setup to load the cape/capes as soon as possible.
Built-in Cape:
capemgr.enable_partno=BB-SPIDEV1 slot #7: Requesting part number/version based 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo slot #7: Requesting firmware 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version '00A0' slot #7: dtbo 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo' loaded; converting to live tree
Custom External Cape:
capemgr.enable_partno=BB-SPI1-01 slot #7: Requesting part number/version based 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo slot #7: Requesting firmware 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version '00A0' failed to load firmware 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo' loader: failed to load slot-7 BB-SPI1-01:00A0 (prio 0)
Workaround:
add "CAPE=BB-SPI1-01" to /etc/default/capemgr
Privileged echo
As a normal user, you can not "sudo echo 'something' >> /etc/privilegedfile"
sudo sh -c "echo 'something' >> /etc/privilegedfile"
Timezone
By default this image is setup to display time in utc mode. If you would like to change this to your local region.
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
or:
echo "Europe/Zurich" > /etc/timezone dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
Jessie Timezone
List of available timezones:
timedatectl list-timezones
Set timezone:
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/North_Dakota/Center
W: GPG error: http://debian.beagleboard.org wheezy-bbb
W: GPG error: http://debian.beagleboard.org wheezy-bbb Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840304 KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840304
Note this directions are version dependent, so double check your version:
debian@beaglebone:~$ 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 #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_2015.10.22~bpo70+20151022+1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2015.10.22~bpo70+20151022+1_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
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
Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-02-26/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.3-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-02-26-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 648d906dbf3e184e1c4513f7895ea1e6ef49ee0b54fbb2bd41cee3b1c2d45d33
microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-02-26/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.3-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-02-26-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: d237311ee16d6ce3c69f4be7b17555539045c70079c0b7415545af9a158d9083
Debian Image Testing Snapshots
Archive mirror (not as fast as rcn-ee.com (linode))
https://rcn-ee.online/rootfs/bb.org/testing/
2016-03-09
BBW/BBB (All Revs) Machinekit
microSD/Standalone: (machinekit)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/machinekit/bone-debian-7.9-machinekit-armhf-2016-03-09-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 31a082042f9603861e2f6a071bfbdbe04fc9ef9084141c244e549fc03ee1da52
Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2016-03-09 notes
* U-Boot: v2016.01 * Kernel: 4.1.18-ti-rt-r52
Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone Black/Green 4GB eMMC)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/lxqt-4gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.3-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-03-09-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: dadd3c6db8f65a05f74d2ebc457e2f64c454c4bdf9cce180023ff79eaa2e8a11
Flasher: (lxqt-2gb) (BeagleBone Black 2GB eMMC)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/lxqt-2gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.3-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2016-03-09-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 039c7ebeea2eced6f29a99ac6143f21dd0e651f90410c18c3bc053c54b777b48
microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.3-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-03-09-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 494bcbb01840c8282ddff48514c165c02eca278d5e5e201331e192a51e229f89
Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.3-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-03-09-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 7d8d2acfbb7db42645fb7ca184c47ed6f265d99879e65d4bad035842f41298df
microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.3-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-03-09-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 900366b6ab33e9d65d24f0c405a6752a3bc253a6de77a151b8e4f612731bb7cb
Jessie Snapshot iot
Flasher: (iot) (BeagleBone Black/Green eMMC)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/iot/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.3-iot-armhf-2016-03-09-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 4fc71315ff67e0f6eab88b197a54e44f83668886830d84bb763347f808ca67cb
microSD/Standalone: (iot) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/iot/bone-debian-8.3-iot-armhf-2016-03-09-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 76d6d6cb89fbe45b37c0c4555179586a036e302cf6ecbdbd7cd90675bb9c9b42
Jessie Snapshot console
Flasher: (console) (BeagleBone Black/Green eMMC)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.3-console-armhf-2016-03-09-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 23c10930cc3caeb479707b5393ee5b4b87f17cfa50ed71dd246bcca400fea503
microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/console/bone-debian-8.3-console-armhf-2016-03-09-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 35aecd5b0c0a3fa18f705d59d562d9d677aa21a706ba5f36eb898acd2ddd48c8
Flasher: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/console/bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.3-console-armhf-2016-03-09-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: d73774fe69c12dd481da1254148d2614e8b345871568655b22c6fbfa72d5996a
microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15)
wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-03-09/console/bbx15-debian-8.3-console-armhf-2016-03-09-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 1095edc749cbd78230e88865b4b824ebcbebdec18cba12727b131b30ccbee55f
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
4.1.x-ti
This is slated to replace the v3.8.x tree in Debian Jessie, cape manager support is enabled.
beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/4.1 Based on: http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=ti-linux-kernel/ti-linux-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ti-linux-4.1.y
4.1.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 --ti-channel --lts-4_1
4.1.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 + RT --ti-rt-channel --lts-4_1
Mainline (4.1.x lts)
4.1.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black --bone-kernel --lts-4_1
4.1.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black + RT --bone-rt-kernel --lts-4_1
Mainline (4.4.x lts)
4.4.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black --bone-kernel --lts-4_4
4.4.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black + RT --bone-rt-kernel --lts-4_4
Debian 8: jessie
sudo apt-get install linux-image-armmp