I would guess that there is a mismatch between what you have installed on your hard drive and the contents of your menu.lst file. You might want to consider another install approach. Thanks for your continued assistance. I'll try the method you recommended to me earlier. Hopefully it'll do the tric...

I was just wondering how i could manually renew the DHCP lease. If you right click your desktop, go to setup then click on Network Wizard. Choose your interface (likely either eth0 or wlan0) and there should be two relevant options - 'Auto DHCP', or you can manually set an address under 'Static IP'...

It probably means that the file /boot/vmlinuz is somehow corrupted. You can try manually copying a fresh copy from the Live CD. Or you might want to consider this install procedure. Indeed it was corrupted... was showing no data at all in the file for some reason. I replaced 'vmlinuz' with a copy f...

I followed the instructions above, and I get the following when I try to boot into puppy from GRUB; root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format Press any key to continue..._ Which then brings me...