> All three are panicing over the same error: "*dracut*" throwing errors
> and warnings, mainly about not finding the swap volumes. I will print
> some proper error messages later, if anyones interested, but at the
> moment it's friday afternoon, packing up time, and I've got a beer
> waiting for me.
> Would be interested in anyone shedding light of exactly what "dracut"
> is, not one I've ever come across before. Of course, if anyones got any
> ideas what might be going on, all comments greatly received!
when you installed the kernel rpms, something must have gone wrong when 
building the kernel initrd images. you should verify that all went fine.

otherwise, you could try to rebuild the initrd files with
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --make-default 
--install <rtkernelname>



stijn