[ale] How to upgrade kernel in Fedora?

[Joe Knapka]

Solved -- I found mkinitrd.

Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> writes:

> 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
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