DietPi Image for Beagle Bone Black

[lucario1001]

Testing Image (Not available any more since DietPi v6.x ):

DietPi_v158_BBB-armv7-(Stretch).7z

How to flash SD to EMMC: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/931#issuecomment-346447628

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wondering if it can be made
AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8

also love your software

works well on the raspberry pi 👍

[Fourdee]

@lucario1001

Thanks for the request. DietPi (being extremely lightweight) would run really well on this single core board.

I did email beaglebone over 3 months ago, requesting dev sample boards, then we can implement a DietPi image and support it. However, still no response as of yet.

[Fourdee]

Lets give twitter a bash:
https://twitter.com/DietPi_/status/861230917322502144

[lucario1001]

cool thanks 👍 soon hope we might have a image for it

[pdp7]

@jadonk @robertcnelson what do you think?

[scottwilliamsinaus]

+1 for this! BBB has a following amongst audiophiles for its ability to have the I2S output synced to an external master clock. Also, the Botic overlay (https://github.com/miero/botic-dev) on BBB is the only way to get hires multichannel output from a SBC at present (I think - happy to be corrected), so incorporating that would be fantastic.
Brilliant work with DietPi otherwise! It has turned Linux from being a drag to fun, and saved me countless hours. Donation made!

[Isso]

+1
Anything we can do to accelerate this?

[Fourdee]

@iSsO
Ordered one on RS, should be here next week (back order)

[Isso]

Great news, I've just ordered the newly announced PocketBeagle one, it will arrive next week as well.

I think they are using the same processor, but the pocket is using a integrated module (Octavo) instead of the bare IC.

Do you think DietPi can work on the pocket as well?

I can help in testing if you need to.

[RobertCNelson]

For BeagleBoard.org, these devices share the same bootloader (v2017.09) and same kernel (v4.4.x-ti/v4.9.x-ti/v4.14.x-ti) just different device-tree binary.

Regards,

[lucario1001]

still have my beagle bone black if you need help testing

[Fourdee]

Arrived 😄

Notes:

• Write EMMC to SD > https://elinux.org/BeagleBone_Black_Extracting_eMMC_contents#Alternatives
• Write SD to EMMC > https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Flashing_eMMC
• rsync dosfstools required?

_NB: BBB LEDS are blinding and distracting lol, like looking at the sun._

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fstab under SD boot (emmc is k1p1):

/dev/mmcblk0p1  /  ext4  noatime,errors=remount-ro  0  1
debugfs  /sys/kernel/debug  debugfs  defaults  0  0

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• 🈴 Our current removal of packages in prep script breaks boot of the device. Need to debug.

• nodejs

• apache2
• core
• 🈴 misc

Package 'btrfs-tools' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  alsa-utils* autoconf* automake* autotools-dev* bb-cape-overlays* bind9-host*
  bone101* cpufrequtils* device-tree-compiler* git* git-core* git-man*
  haveged* hostapd* i2c-tools* iperf* libasound2* libasound2-data*
  libdbus-1-dev* lsof* m4* ncurses-term* pkg-config* rfkill* screen*

device-tree-compiler required for bb-cape-overlays* device-tree-compiler
git required for bone101* git* git-core*

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• 1st run of DietPi results in failed boot (middle 2 blue LED's lit), due to FS expansion. Not compatible with BBB's unique boot system. Fixed image size (4GB) for EMMC.
• FS size incorrect (corruption???)

root@DietPi:~# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p1  3.3G  2.7G  407M  87% /

root@DietPi:~# cd /
root@DietPi:/# treesize
2.6 GB .
1.6 GB ./var

root@DietPi:/# cd /var
root@DietPi:/var# treesize
1.6 GB .
59.6 MB ./lib
23.2 MB ./cache
24.0 KB ./spool
16.0 KB ./local
12.0 KB ./log
8.0 KB ./backups
4.0 KB ./tmp
4.0 KB ./opt
4.0 KB ./mail

• 🈯️ Due to swap generation, will disable.

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Large image size:

• remove /opt/source /opt/cloud9 ?

[Fourdee]

Performance:

• CPU: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1253#issuecomment-346441545
• Network: 100MBit
• Heat Eff, unable to determine, CPU temp in kernel not implemented.
• Onboard EMMC:
  

[Fourdee]

How to flash EMMC (rev C):

• Boot system with DietPi on SD card (hold S2 during power on for 2-5 seconds)
• DietPi may reboot system automatically after updates, if so, hold down the S2 button again.
• Wait for dietpi-software screen to show, then exit.
• Edit /DietPi/uEnv.txt and enable line at bottom (remove #) cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
• Reboot system
• Wait for device to flash (LED's in up and down motion). Device will power down once its completed.
• Eject SD and power on.

[Fourdee]

https://twitter.com/DietPi_/status/933419127276036096

Completed. Image now live.

[antonellocaroli]

I can not find the image on the download page

[Fourdee]

@antonellocaroli

Apologies, the image is no longer available/maintained due to low user count. You can install DietPi on the system using PREP:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1285#issue-280771944

[zhanglongqi]

@Fourdee Just curious about how you know the user count? what is the data source?

[MichaIng]

E.g. the survey statistics give/gave a hint: https://dietpi.com/survey/#device
See for "BBB", two reported systems, probably one was Fourdees testing system. Since there is no BBB image download available anymore this cannot be compared well now, but it was when Fourdee closed this ticket.

But you can always use https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/dev/PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh to migrate from (mostly) any Debian-based image to DietPi.