VMware server cannot run on FC6

[Paul Smith]

On 10/26/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
> > insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon.o': -1 Invalid module
> > format
>
> Aha... while getting out-of-tree Wifi driver working on my stepson's
> laptop last night I saw the same.  I eventually tracked it down (Google
> had people asking and no real answers) to Anaconda having given his
> Athlon laptop an i586 kernel whereas the rest of the bits and bobs were
> i686.  Do a
>
> dmesg | tail
>
> and if you see a complaint about a vermagic mismatch, check the two
> strings full of tokens for the differences.  In our case it was i586 vs
> i686.  We confirmed we had the i586 kernel like this
>
> rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}-%{arch}\n" kernel
>
> What we did was to download the i686 kernel and kernel-devel from an
> http mirror, then
>
> rpm -e --nodeps kernel kernel-devel
>
> (don't worry about the grubby warning)  then added back in the i686
> stuff we just downloaded
>
> rpm -i kernel*.rpm
>
> On reboot, the previously compiled module "just worked" without a
> recompile, now it had an i686 arch kernel to get into.

Did that, but now the /boot directory is empty and FC6 does not boot. Any ideas?

Paul