I think upgrading pmon is risky (presumably it can brick your system, though there may be some recovery process, I'm not sure.)
I don't think installing grub is risky at all. With grub installed, you can still press a key to get to the pmon prompt, and tell pmon how you'd like to boot. grub installs only to the hard drive, and you put lines in your pmon config file telling it to boot grub. (So, unlike pmon, a partially/incorrectly installed grub will leave your system bootable.) There are instructions on setting it up this way here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install#Squeeze_boot_loader_GRUB I know these instructions were tested with the yeeloong lemote, and they should work on the fuloong as well. Take care, - Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.