I think what I am going to do is just use linuxbios + etherboot to boot an elf image from the ide disk, and move the partitions down.
You can also use the etherboot 5.0.6 ide patch solution, which contains file system support (ext2, ext3, and vfat) so you don't have to move your partitions. I store it at http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/
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