DL 580 G5 not booting on 2.6.9-78.0.5.ELsmp

[Chris Swenson]

I have a new DL 580 G5 w/ 2 dual core processors running RH 4.5 AS. It was running fine on the 2.6.9-67 Kernel, but after the .78.0.1 and 78.0.5 updates it refuses to boot. I can boot it with the *.67 kernel. RH had me delete the .78 and try to download and install it again, but I did not pull the smp version.
"up2date -uf kernel-smp"
The system then annouces everything is up to date, but there are no new kernels in the /boot dir.

[Nuwan Alwis]

Have you edit the grub.conf to reflect the changes you made to your kernel?

send us the boot logs if possible.

[Chris Swenson]

At this point I have Red hat really scratching their heads.

I am considering reinstalling the box from scratch because this makes no sense at all.

[Kevin Wright]

what errors did you get on boot with the 78 kernel?

instead of using up2date, download and install the kernels manually to confirm. update grub.conf, and boot.