Just a quick post to let everyone out there that still owns this monitor that you can use it nicely under Gnu/Linux, you just have to set the sync and refresh rates in your xorg.conf. My Ubuntu install didn’t do it auto-magically, so I had to go look.
Looks like someone was still using theirs [...]

Go Microsoft! An annoying reminder that is really hard to figure out how to disable.

Boot.ini is whack.
After a lot of searching, I finally found a page that kind of describes what the options of boot.ini are.
So I finally got my D:\ drive root eeepc to boot nicely. The weird boot.ini is a remnant of the USB install I did of XP, I think.