RH kernel upgrade

[Jamie McCarthy <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's something I must just not understand.

I upgraded a few machines from Red Hat 5.2 to Red Hat 6.0 this
weekend.  The same thing happened on each of them.  Like a good
security-conscious dude, I had downloaded all the updated RPMs
listed on Red Hat's website, including the new kernels.  Using
ordinary "rpm -Uvh", I applied all the ordinary packages first
and then the kernel update:  from the 2.2.5-15 on the CD to
2.2.5-22 the latest version.

Upon reboot, each of these machines aborted the bootup with a
kernel panic, due to the module for the SCSI driver not being able
to be loaded. The message was the same each time:
"/lib/Driver.o" could not be loaded because it was compiled for
2.2.5-15 and the current kernel version was 2.2.5-22.  With
different hardware on each machine, I saw this message for
aic7xxx.o, BusLogic.o, and ncrsomething.o.

I had assumed the new version of the kernel would also update all
the modules that required updating as well.  I must be doing
something wrong!  I tried to follow these (RH5.2) directions as
closely as I could...

http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/errata/rh60-errata-general.html#kernel
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/docs/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html
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        Jamie McCarthy
        jamie@mccarthy.org
 http://jamie.mccarthy.org/