Hello, I'm having two basic problems when I try to run v8.1 Personal on my new Athlon 2100+ (Tbred 'B') computer: 1) I cannot boot normally through GRUB; after I select Linux, it *immediately* crashes out saying: kernel (hd0, 4)/bootvmlinuz root=/devhda5 vga=791 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x10aab8] Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory Press any key to continue... I have tried the "Safe Settings" installation, I have installed LILO (which causes a "kerenl panic"), and I have tried setting "mem=512M" in the boot settings -- nothing has helped. I *can* boot the system from the CD-ROM by selecting "Manual Installation" and then "Boot Installed System" BUT: 2) I cannot get either the onboard nVida 10/100 LAN or a LinkSys LNE100TX v5.1 to work with either my Windows machines nor the other Linux machine nor can it access the Internet through my router/ADS as the other Linux machine can. During the boot process, both the nVida and the LinkSys "fail to get device name" or something similar to this, and I have tried to manually assign a TCP/IP address, gateway, etc. The motherboard is the Asus A7N266-VM/AA with 512MB (32MB of that is shared with the onboard GeForce2 MX video), and the onboard sound processor does not function. The only PCI expansion card that I have installed is the LinkSys NIC. I was using the "AMD Assured" BIOS (v1004) and I am now running v1005. Is there anything else I can do to either fix this boot problem, or get my LAN and/or Internet access working? Or do I have to wait for v8.2 to get all or some of these issues solved? -- Sincerely, Neil Blanchard mailto:neil.blanchard@verizon.net