Starting a new thread on the FILO subject because it isn't really about "BIOS" stuff anymore. What about this theory. FILO searches for a filo.conf file on the first drive it finds in the first partition root directory. If it does not find filo.conf it prompts the user for a configuration. At the end, it prompts the user if they want to save it and writes a new filo.conf file to the first drive it finds in the first partition root directory. This way the next time you boot the configuration (filo.conf) is found, it has a timeout for user intervention (to add/change the configuration, or manually boot) and it boots that config.