kernel upgrade boot problem - Please Help

All,

I installed a new copy of Fedora Core 2 on a Dell GX280 with and 80 Gig
SATA disk drive.

Everything installed perfectly and booted. I then performed a yum upgrade
to get all the latest upgrades and that went perfectly.

However, when I try to boot the new 2.6.10 kernel, I get a kernel panic
saying "unable to mount root fs"

I have no problem booting back to the 2.6.5 kernel from the original
install, but I need some of the new features in 2.6.10. I have had this
problem before with SATA drives and simply gave up and went back to an IDE
drive, but this time, I need to resolve the problem.

Has anyone ever been able to boot an SATA disk with an upgraded kernel or
and custom configured kernel.

If so, Please share ---- What is the secret??

Thanks in Advance,

John

John Kimberly <jkimb RemoveThis @kimberlyconsulting.com> writes:

>All,

>I installed a new copy of Fedora Core 2 on a Dell GX280 with and 80 Gig
>SATA disk drive.

>Everything installed perfectly and booted. I then performed a yum upgrade
>to get all the latest upgrades and that went perfectly.

>However, when I try to boot the new 2.6.10 kernel, I get a kernel panic
>saying "unable to mount root fs"

>I have no problem booting back to the 2.6.5 kernel from the original
>install, but I need some of the new features in 2.6.10. I have had this
>problem before with SATA drives and simply gave up and went back to an IDE
>drive, but this time, I need to resolve the problem.

>Has anyone ever been able to boot an SATA disk with an upgraded kernel or
>and custom configured kernel.

Well, I use mandrake, but sure. I have a Mandrake 10.1 with upgraded 2.6.11
kernel and it boots fine. And it has managed to read the disk if it loaded
the kernel (mind you using the bios routines).

>If so, Please share ---- What is the secret??

>Thanks in Advance,

>John