Kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL will NOT load
 

I am running Red Hat AS, and am getting this error with up2date... it says, Your system is currently running kernel-2.6.9-5.EL, but the newest installed kernel is kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL. It is recommened that you reboot at the first opportunity to test this new kernel...
I've rebooted a hundred times since I first got that message and it still won't go away... obviosly some user interaction needs to occur... I just don't know what to do to make it load and run the new kernel???
I would really appreciate any help that anyone could give me... also, how to do you install a printer on this thing... I have another computer running xp pro, with a Lexmark z515 connected to it... they are both on a 100MHz peer-to-peer network...
I just want to get started using this OS and learning it's ins and outs... I'd really like to get a shared printer set-up so that I can print interesting things that I find... and maybe some homework items...
Most thankfully,
Dan
PS
The computer is a DELL optiplex GX110... it has two hard drives... a 40Gig as master on the primary and a 10Gig as slave on the primary...

Are you using grub or lilo ..

I don't know lilo .. but here are instructions for grub ( I am pretty sure RH uses grub by default .. so it should be ok).
Check the content of your /boot directory .. do you have the kernel you need ? if not then you first have to run update install for the kernel ..

Once the kernel image is there is /boot (with it's initrd image if needed) .. edit /boot/grub/menu.lst file ..
Just copy what they have currently for another kernel and make identical lines except with kernel= <> and initrd<> line bening the new ones.

There is a DEFAULT parameter in the file .. which select the entry to boot from (starting from 0)

Fix that to point to your new kernl (in the order it appears in the file)..

and reboot .. new kernel shoudl boot.


To use printer in the system use CUPS pacakge .. it;'s pretty easy to setup .

To use a printer from windows you will have to use SAMBA as server.

hope this helps .

I don't think that it uses GRUB
 

I don't think that it uses GRUB... because when I talked to the tech people they said to go to the GRUB directory and I don't have one... Then they sent me an email and said that should modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and add the following lines.. I didn't have a grub.conf file... so, I made one.. and put the lines in it that they told me to..
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-5.0.3.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.img

However, none of that stuff was there... I don't understand LILO either... but, I guess I'm gonna' have to learn... because, if this computer doesn't use GRUB, it's got to use LILO... where is the boot file for LILO stored at??? How can I be certain whether it uses LILO or GRUB???
Most sincerely,
Dan :)