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3.1 Booting from USB drive

Now that you have your USB drive ready, plug it into one of the available USB ports on your YeeLoong and hit the power button. As the YeeLoong starts, press down the <DEL>-key on your keyboard to enter the PMON command prompt. PMON is the BIOS for the YeeLoong and has a wide range of commands available do to all sorts of things we won't talk about in this manual.

If your screen is black and you have 'PMON>' in your upper left corner, you have done everything right. Type:

     load (usb0,0)/vmlinux-2.6.31.6-libre1

and hit 'ENTER' to load the linux image you copied to your USB drive. If the filename of the image you downloaded is different than the one in this manual, simply enter the correct one. Should you get an error, fear not, just type the command again and it will work.

If everything went alright, PMON should print out some weird message you don't have to think about. Now type:

     initrd (usb0,0)/initrd.gz

and hit 'ENTER' to load the initrd.gz file. Note that this might take up to 15 minutes, so go make yourself a nice cup of coffee while its working. When it is done it too will spit out a message you don't have to think about.

This final command will initiate the gNewSense installer. Type:

     g console=tty no_auto_cmd

And you will be presented with the gNewSense installer.