BeagleBone Black running Ubuntu 14.04 supports ROS Indigo; and ROS will be deployed as the distributed run-time framework for E-Motion robots. This blog documents how to bring up a minimal, console-only Ubuntu 14.04 on BeagleBone Black.
First, download the pre-built eMMC-flasher image:
wget https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/2015-02-19/flasher/BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-02-19-2gb.img.xz
Now verify the image:
md5sum BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-02-19-2gb.img.xz 857d9d8f05f781de63c5d389938d0cf1 BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-02-19-2gb.img.xz
Write the image to the SDcard/MMC:
unxz BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-02-19-2gb.img.xz sudo dd if=./BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-02-19-2gb.img of=/dev/sdX
where ‘X’ is your sdcard letter. If your card is a MMC card, do this:
unxz BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-02-19-2gb.img.xz sudo dd if=./BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-02-19-2gb.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
When writing is complete, do:
sync
to flush the file system, just in case.
Now put the sdcard into the BBB, power 5V while holding down the small button next to the sdcard slot.
References
emotionrobots.com 