[Sussex] boot probs

[David Chapman]

I have tried to upgrade my SuSE 9.2 box to a 2.6.11 kernel and it failed to 
boot.
The error is 

Loading kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko
Loading kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko
waiting for device /dev/hda6 to appear :............... not found -- exiting 
to /bin/sh
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
$


/dev/hda6 is my / partion

The same error appears with the 2.6.8-24-smp kernel

If I boot from my SuSE DVD and choose 
>installation
	>boot installed system  

It will find the SuSE install and boot fine but only with the default 2.6.8-24 
kernel which is uniprocessor.
Upgrading to the 2.6.11 kernel required upgrading mkinitrd 1.1 to 1.2

Any help please
I would rather not reinstall