Fred Skrotzki said:
well none of mine match. ll initrd*smp* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496401 Dec 1 16:22 initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 494295 Dec 2 12:37 initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp.img
Not surprising. The initrd is created as part of the post install RPM script so that it matches your hardware. A better thing to try would be to rebuild the initrd for the kernel version that isn't working and set grub to use it.