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System Version

Not specified

Status

basic

Last Update

2025-03-04

postmarketOS MangoPi MQ Pro Test Report

Test Environment

Operating System Information

Hardware Information

  • MangoPi MQ Pro
  • Power Adapter
  • A microSD card
  • A USB to UART Debugger

Installation Steps

Install via pmbootstrap

Get pmbootstrap, e.g. under Arch Linux:

pacman -S pmbootstrap

Bootstrap and flash the system via pmbootstrap:

pmbootstrap init
pmbootstrap install --sdcard=/dev/sdX
pmbootstrap shutdown

Various configurations would also be made in the above process. Remember to select the target vendor as mangopi, and the target board as mq-pro。

Logging into the System

Logging into to the system via the serial port.

Username and password should be set during installation.

Expected Results

The system should boot up normally and allow login via the onboard serial port.

Actual Results

The system booted up normally and login via the onboard serial port was also successful.

The system comes with built-in CDC-NCM which enables serial networking.

Boot Log

   OpenRC 0.60 is starting up Linux 6.1.0-rc3 (riscv64)

 * /proc is already mounted
 * /run/openrc: creating directory
 * /run/lock: creating directory
 * /run/lock: correcting owner
zram swap: activating with size: 732 MB
 * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
 * Clock skew detected with '/etc/init.d'
 * Adjusting mtime of '/run/openrc/deptree' to Tue Mar  4 13:37:15 2025

 * WARNING: clock skew detected!
 * Remounting devtmpfs on /dev ... [ ok ]
 * Mounting /dev/mqueue ... [ ok ]
 * Mounting /dev/shm ... [ ok ]
 * Mounting debug filesystem ... [ ok ]
 * Mounting config filesystem ... [ ok ]
 * Mounting persistent storage (pstore) filesystem ... [ ok ]
 * Mounting efivarfs filesystem ... [ ok ]
 * Starting udev ... [ ok ]
 * Generating a rule to create a /dev/root symlink ... [ ok ]
 * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ]
 * Waiting for uevents to be processed ... [ ok ]
 * WARNING: clock skew detected!
 * Loading modules ... [ ok ]
 * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... [ ok ]
 * Checking local filesystems  ... [ ok ]
 * Remounting filesystems ... [ ok ]
 * Mounting local filesystems ... [ ok ]
 * Configuring kernel parameters ... [ ok ]
 * Creating user login records ... [ ok ]
 * Cleaning /tmp directory ... [ ok ]
 * Setting hostname ... [ ok ]
 * Starting logbookd ...Cannot restore /var/log/logbookd.db
 [ ok ]
 * WARNING: clock skew detected!
 * Activating swap file ...Configured swap file size is 0, skipping creation.
 [ ok ]
 * /run/dbus: creating directory
 * /run/dbus: correcting owner
 * Starting System Message Bus ... [ ok ]
 * Your kernel lacks nftables support, please load
 * appropriate modules and try again.
 * ERROR: nftables failed to start
 * Starting haveged ... [ ok ]
 * Could not find a wireless interface
 * /var/run/wpa_supplicant: creating directory
 * Starting WPA Supplicant ... [ ok ]
 * Starting networkmanager ... [ ok ]
 * Starting chronyd ... [ ok ]
 * Starting kill-pbsplash ...killall: pbsplash: no process killed
 * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/killall'
 * Failed to start kill-pbsplash
 [ !! ]
 * ERROR: kill-pbsplash failed to start
 * Restoring rfkill configuration ... [ ok ]
 * Starting sleep-inhibitor ... [ ok ]
ssh-keygen: generating new host keys: RSA ECDSA ED25519 
 * Starting sshd ... [ ok ]
 * Activating swap devices ... [ ok ]
zram swap: activating with size: 732 MB
 * Loading zram module...
 [ ok ]
 * Swap->zram0
 [ ok ]
 * Starting local ... [ ok ]

Welcome to postmarketOS
Kernel 6.1.0-rc3 on an riscv64 (/dev/ttyS0)
mangopi-mq-pro login: root
Password: 
Login incorrect
mangopi-mq-pro login: user
Password: 
Welcome to postmarketOS! o/

This distribution is based on Alpine Linux.
First time using postmarketOS? Make sure to read the cheatsheet in the wiki:

-> https://postmarketos.org/cheatsheet

You may change this message by editing /etc/motd.
mangopi-mq-pro:~$ uname -a
Linux mangopi-mq-pro 6.1.0-rc3 #1 Wed Jul 31 00:22:22 UTC 2024 riscv64 Linux
mangopi-mq-pro:~$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="postmarketOS edge"
NAME="postmarketOS"
VERSION_ID="edge"
VERSION="edge"
ID="postmarketos"
ID_LIKE="alpine"
HOME_URL="https://www.postmarketos.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/issues"
LOGO="postmarketos-logo"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
mangopi-mq-pro:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: usb0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether (redacted) brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 172.16.42.1/16 brd 172.16.255.255 scope global noprefixroute usb0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 (redacted) scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
mangopi-mq-pro:~$

Test Criteria

Successful: The actual result matches the expected result.

Failed: The actual result does not match the expected result.

Test Conclusion

Test successful.

Source: Support Matrix