hi friends

i have redhat ES 4 in my system.I was building kernel 2.6.27.6 ..My previous kernel is 2.6-9-5.
after building kernel when ibooted through new kernel then i found following error messages.


filesystem type is ext2fs,partition type 0X83
Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.6 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
[Linux -bzImage,setup=0X3000 size=0X109040]
initrd /boot/initrd -2.6-9-5.EL.img
[Linux-initrd@0Xf668000,0X77C16 bytes]
RedHat nash version 4.1.18 etarting
insmod:error inserting '/lib/scsi_mod,ko':-1 Invalid module format
ERROR:/bin/insmod exited abnormally!
insmod:error inserting '/lib/scsi_mod,ko':-1 Invalid module format
ERROR:/bin/insmod exited abnormally!
insmod:error inserting '/lib/scsi_mod,ko':-1 Invalid module format
ERROR:/bin/insmod exited abnormally!
insmod:error inserting '/lib/scsi_mod,ko':-1 Invalid module format
ERROR:/bin/insmod exited abnormally!
insmod:error inserting '/lib/jdb.ko':-1 Invalid module momat
ERROR:/bin/insmod exited abnormlly;
insmod:error inserting '/lib/ext3.ko':-1 invalid module formete
ERROR:/bin/insmod exited abnormly!
mount:error 19 mounting ext3
mount:error 2 mounting none
switchroot:mount failed:22
umount /initrd/dev failed:2
Kernel panic -not syncing: Attempted to kill init!






my grub.conf file is as follows......

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
password --md5 $1$x/x14Vvd$nHG7qZNyuqvuhks/zryIo0
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-5.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.EL ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img
title kernel-2.6.27.6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.6 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img

title Window
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1


please help me......

I don't really know if this is the answer, but you're using the same initrd for the two kernels.

sorry brianL

a late reply
now i tried to make new initrd as follows but it is giving following error message...

[root@virus linux-2.6.27.6]# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.6.img 2.6.27.6
No module ata_piix found for kernel 2.6.27.6, aborting.

I don't know much about mkinitrd, but that command looks wrong. Check out the mkinitrd man page. As an example, I had to run this:

Yours will be different in minor details, of course.