FC3T2 Kernel Startup

[John Hawkins]

I have FC3T2 installed on a PIII 450 mhz system. The initial
installation installed kernel 2.6.7-1.478 and I upgraded the kernel with
up2date to kernel 2.6.8-1.520 last night. The boot process is not how
expect it to behave and the new kernel is not being loaded. I've
rebooted a number of times and have tried to write everything down on
paper so that I could document this issue. I haven't caught everything,
so if I am missing something that you think is important, let me know
and I'll keep booting until I get it all. Here's what I see.


A quick flash that looks like Grub Stage 2 (not certain as it really
flashes too quick to read it well).

Root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinux - 2.6.7-1.478 ro root= /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
quiet
[Linux -bz Image, setup=0x1400, size=0x148891]
initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.478.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x17f3a000,0xa5eba bytes]

Uncompressing Linux..... OK, booting the kernel
audit (1097336390.4294966319:0) initialized
Red Hat Nash version 3.5.24 starting
reading all physical volumes. This may take a while.....
Found Volume group "VolGroup00" using media at the lvm2 (it think this
is what this line says - I can't read my scribling well)
I then get a full screen of what appears to be some type of hex dump
like:

88 36 03 05 00 40 ed (and so on for at least 40 lines)

After a few seconds the screen clears and the following is displayed:

Fedora Core Release 2.90 (FC3 Test1)
Linux 2.6.7-1.478 on an i686

localhost login: 

after a couple of seconds the screen clears and I get the Fedora Core
Graphical login screen.


Any ideas why the updated version of the kernel is not loading?

Thanks.