Have you tried to boot the pc with the disc image
available at amithlon.com/net? It may help to
see if there are any driver problems before you
go thru the torment of setting up a linux boot
loader. Some folks prefer XL over Amithlon,
including myself, I really am fascinated by those
who say WinUAE is faster than XL?? I can count
the icons as they load into WB, whereas in XL the
sys partition loads all the icons "splat" at once.