Neil Turton wrote:
I tried with FILO and got to the boot prompt. I've not worked out how to boot the MBR though.
FILO is used to boot a kernel from a known partition on local storage. FILO with the GRUB-like interface accepts the same commands as GRUB, except that disk devices are named hda1 and so on. Note never sda. Note this device naming is different than in Linux. Disk devices are assigned names in PCI bus order.
We really do need a command in FILO to print a list of devices. :)
MBR is a BIOS thingy so for that you need SeaBIOS.
//Peter