Red Hat 7.3 kernel update --> will not boot

[kevin0718]

Hello:

I installed Red Hat 7.3 from CD and everything went fine. I then used up2date to update the kernel. The machine will not boot to the new kernel.

Hardware:
Dell PowerEdge 1300/350 server
Dell SCSi Select PERC 2/SC

When the machine boots it allows me to select the kernel to boot with as follows:
GRUB version 0.91
Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-27.7x)
Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)

If I select 2.4.18-3, which is the orginal kernel the machine boots fine.

When I boot using 2.4.18-27.7x I get the following messages during boot:

Red Hat nash version 3.3.10 starting
Loading scsi_mod module
SCSI subsystem driver Revision 1.00
Loading sd_mod module
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprod -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2
Loading meagraid module
meagraid: v1.18d
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 02:09.1
megaraid: no BIOS enabled
/lib/megaraid.o init_module:
Hint: insmod error can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
incliding invalid IO or IRQ parameters
ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally
Loading aic7xxx module
PCI: Found IRQ14 device 02:0b.0
scsi0: Adaptec AIC7xxx EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA Driver Rev 6.2.8
Adaptec aic 7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter
aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
blk:queue c1ab7818, I/O limit 4095Mb mask 0xffffffff
Loading jbdmodule
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Loading ext3 module
Mounting /proc file system
Creating root device
Mounting root file system
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno=2
mount: error 6 mounting ext 3
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed:2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed
kernel panic: No init found


As I said before Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3) boots just fine
the line:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprod -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2

occures in /var/log/dmesg for a successful boot. So I do not think
this is an error. The same IRQ ( IRQ 5) is assigned to device 02:09.1 during
successful and unsuccessful boots. 02:09.1 is assigned to scsi0 in a successful boot.

But megaraid: no BIOS enabled, that seems to be a problem.

What can I say except Help. In way over my head.

thanks

kd