Hey all,

I have a P4 2.4 GHz CPU (hyper threading) and have been using the 2.4.21-20.EL.c0smp kernel and it works perfectly.

I installed the new kernel-smp (2.4.21-20.0.1.EL) kernel and it installed flawlessly.  However, every time I boot I get a kernel panic and I must reboot to the older kernel. 

The error I am getting is: (it seems to be failing on jbd.o and ext3.o)

Kernel requires old insmod, but couldn't run /bin/insmod.old No such file or directory

Then it can’t find the initrd and Panics. 

I am running a single partition on my software RAID1, the file system is ext3.

[root@admin /]# df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/md0             115377576   2014940 107501728   2% /

none                    512700         0    512700   0% /dev/shm

[root@admin /]#

I just can’t seem to figure it out.  I’ve done some searching online but the fixes people are posting just don’t seem logical as my initrd IS there.

[root@admin /]# ls -al /boot/*2.4.21-20.0.1.EL*

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        48514 Dec  2 18:38 /boot/config-2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       306034 Dec  3 16:13 /boot/initrd-2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp.img

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       601959 Dec  2 18:38 /boot/System.map-2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3523220 Dec  2 18:38 /boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1353893 Dec  2 18:38 /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp

[root@admin /]#

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would like to put this machine into production soon.

Regards,

Josh