How to remember settings?

[8-bit]

I moved the boot options line to the kernel line of menu.lst and all worked.
I retained the subdirectory in the path pointed to.

This is my working current menu.lst entry for a frugal install to a subdirectory.
You can use it as a template changing the drive and subdirectory as needed.

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Tiny Core Linux .9
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /tce/bzImage quiet tce=hda1/tce restore=hda1/tce
  initrd /tce/tinycore.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends

Hope that this may help others doing a frugal install.