First you have to get into a running shell. If your machine has both the SMP and the UP kernel installed, you might try booting the "other one" (i.e. if the SMP one is leading to the kernel panic, try the UP one.) If you don't have a kernel installed that you can boot into, then you'll want to boot into rescue mode. Boot from your original boot media, entering "linux rescue" at the boot prompt. Finish booting up, and you will be prompted that the system is going to mount your partitions under /mnt/sysimage. After continuing, you will be dropped at a shell prompt. There you will be able to recreate your initrd. You'll want to use the mkinitrd utility in order to do this. The simpliest thing is to just run it without any arguments, as it will then give you an example you can follow. Basically, you'll want to run something like this:
mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.4.21-9.EL.img 2.4.21-9.EL
Course you'll have to substitute the appropriate versions into the command (in place of 2.4.21-9.EL.)
- jkt
I tried this, and the kernel continues to panic with the same errors. One thing is, I can still boot into 2.44.22-1.2149 normally, it's just the when I try to boot into the new one that is giving my the problem.
