[CentOS] Kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2EL fails to boot after upgrade toCentOS 4.4

Sat Sep 2 17:08:37 UTC 2006
Gerald Waugh <gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com>

> >   
> Since I'm still happily running CentOS 4.3, I should probably keep my 
> thoughts
> to myself, but that immediate kernel panic sure is a reminder of 
> attempting to boot
> an i686 kernel with an i586 processor.  I'd try to duplicate the 
> reported symptom
> but my AMD K6-2 box has become an "organ transplant" donor 
> strictly because of kernel requirements.
> 

It's a Tyan GS14 Celeron D 2.53GHz
My console output reads (in-part)

ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30D0 ctl 0x30C6 bmdma 0x3090 irq 10
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30C8 ctl 0x30C2 bmdma 0x3098 irq 10
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors: LBA48
ata1: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
ata1: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
scsi0 : ata_piix
ata2: SATA port has no device.
scsi1 : ata_piix
Loading dm-mod.ko module
device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
Loading jbd.ko module
Loading ext3.ko module
Loading dm-mirror.ko module
Loading dm-zero.ko module
Loading dm-snapshot.ko module
Making device-mapper control node
Scanning logical volumes
  RKernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
  eading all physi cal volumes.  This may take a while...
    No volume groups found
    Activating logical volumes
      Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
      ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 318)


Gerald