That did the trick.. it installed cleanly and I have rebooted in the kernel-2.6.9-11.EL everything seems ok now.. Thank you for your help... it is greatly appreciated Dave -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:25 AM To: CentOS ML Subject: RE:[CentOS] RE:tryingtoupgradefromCentos4.0tocurrent--repairRPMdatabase On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 10:08 -0400, David Campbell wrote: > ok > [root at mail /]# ls -l /boot | grep initrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 969674 Apr 16 15:39 initrd-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.img > [root at mail /]# OK ... that is the problem ... For some reason, your initrd images are not being generated during the kernel RPM installs. try downloading the latest kernel and manually: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i68 6.rpm and install it with the command: rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm pay particular attention to any errors on the screen in the text When finished, see if there is an initrd-2.6.9-11.EL.img in /boot