Broken Kernel since 2.6.15

[Adam Pribyl]

> I decided to upgrade to FC5 since it still had a kernel-2.6.15.
> Now my system won't boot.
> I also tried the latest kernel-2.6.17, same thing.
> I feel like fedora has pulled the plug on my system.
>
> The funny thing is that I can boot from the DVD and go into rescue mode and
> it finds the drive just fine.
>
> So my question is what do I have to do to make a cdrom that I can boot from
> and find my disk and load everything else from disk?
>
> I tried a grub floppy, and that worked, but only for the kernels that worked
> without it.  So it didn't buy me anything.
>
> So I think the cdrom has to have the kernel on it.

You can try to rebuild initrd.

Adam Pribyl