[ale] How to upgrade kernel in Fedora?

[Joe Knapka]

Hi everyone,

I am having a problem upgrading my kernel from the 2.6.8-xyz shipped
with FC3, to 2.6.11 from kernel.org.  I built and installed the kernel
image and modules successfully, but when I try to boot the new kernel,
I get a kernel panic because it can't load module "/lib/raid.ko" due
to module version mismatch. (Even though I disabled module versioning
when configuring the kernel...)

The old kernel boots initially from an initrd, and I'm trying to use
that same initrd to boot the new kernel as well (because I don't know
what else to do). I presume that /lib/raid.ko exists on the initrd,
but I'm at a loss how to fix this. Do I need to build a new initrd for
this kernel, and if so, how do I do that?  Why do I need the initrd in
the first place? (Is it because my / is on a software RAID partition?)
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Thanks,

-- Joe Knapka  j k n a p k a at k n e u r o . n e t