yum upgrade? - Failed

[seth vidal]

> |
> | Everything went fine until reboot.  I have two kernels installed
> | 2.6.8-152 and 2.6.9.649.
> |
> | When using the 2.6.9 kernel startup stops at a point when it says
> | "switching to new root"
> | and
> | when using the 2.6.8 kernel startup stops at almost the same place
> | stating "Warning: unable to open an initial console".
> |
> | It was a good thing I did this on a test machine not my live one but do
> | you have any suggestions to work around this or am I at a point where
> | need to install from a cd?

Is udev installed?

try running: rpm -Va --nofiles

and see what it turns up.

I bet something in your system has a missing dep.

-sv