Debian 12 Bookworm unified image for Nitrogen8 boards

  1. Programming the image
  2. Usernames and passwords
  3. What's supported?
  4. What's new in this release?
    1. CPU-specific package selection
    2. Network Manager
    3. i.MX 8M Plus support
  5. Weston keyboard bindings
    1. Weston touch / mouse bindings
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Ezurio (formerly Boundary Devices) is proud to release our new Debian Bookworm image for all our Nitrogen8 boards! This image uses Weston which is the reference Wayland compositor. This image boots up the Weston compositor at start. This can be changed by disabling the service autostart, as described later in this post. This system contains NXP licensed content, so you will need to register on our website and log in before you can accept the license agreement and download the Debian Bookworm images for Nitrogen8 from here: For Nitrogen8M, Nitrogen8M SOM, Nitrogen8M Mini, Nitrogen8M Mini SOM, Nitrogen8M Nano SOM, Nitrogen8M Plus SOM, Nitrogen8MP SMARC:

This is a unified image for the aforementioned boards, there is no need for board specific images anymore. At the first start it will detect the board type run a configuration script. Finally, it will set all board specific parameters and apt repositories. Important! Before installing this image please check your U-Boot version, as it requires U-Boot version 2022.04 to be used. Make sure to visit our wiki if you need to upgrade:

You can find the bootscript in the /boot sub-directory now, its named boot.scr. The partition labels are set if you use dd or Balena Etcher to flash the image. If you use your own method please check the boot partition labels because the fstab boots by label (LABEL=sys-1Eh for example) now.  You can use e2label to modify partition label.

Programming the image

As usual, we recommend using the Balena Etcher tool to flash your SD Card / eMMC:

The uncompressed image size is slightly bigger than 5GB, you'll need at least 8GB eMMC storage to install it. Please watch this video for the detailed instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXUG-BVLVvU

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