Kernel Panic with 2.44.22-1.2166

[Bobby Ryan Newberry]

>First you have to get into a running shell.  If your machine has both the
>SMP and the UP kernel installed, you might try booting the "other one"
>(i.e. if the SMP one is leading to the kernel panic, try the UP one.)  If
>you don't have a kernel installed that you can boot into, then you'll want
>to boot into rescue mode.  Boot from your original boot media, entering
>"linux rescue" at the boot prompt.  Finish booting up, and you will be
>prompted that the system is going to mount your partitions under
>/mnt/sysimage.  After continuing, you will be dropped at a shell prompt.
>There you will be able to recreate your initrd.  You'll want to use the
>mkinitrd utility in order to do this.  The simpliest thing is to just run
>it without any arguments, as it will then give you an example you can
>follow.  Basically, you'll want to run something like this:
>
>mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.4.21-9.EL.img 2.4.21-9.EL
>
>Course you'll have to substitute the appropriate versions into the command
>(in place of 2.4.21-9.EL.)
>
>- jkt


I tried this, and the kernel continues to panic with the same errors. One thing is, I can still boot into 2.44.22-1.2149 normally, it's just the when I try to boot into the new one that is giving my the problem.