I think you'll find that dual booting with Linux and ME isn't advisable. When I installed ME on a dual boot machine it came up with a warning that ME wasn't to be used with my Bootmanager software. I'd also say that your partition is a bit small for the OS. I find ME to be fine on both my desktop and Notebook PCs so it's worth persevering! By the way it's pointless using autoexec files in ME as they're obsolete and ignored.
[This message has been edited by Specaircrew (edited 13 April 2001).]