Kernel didn't upgrade

This is my very first time to upgrade kernel remotely myself. I even prepared to pay for kernel recompiling if I messed that up. Anyway, I believe I must have missed some steps.

I used up2date to fetch the list of lastest kernel for this new box - Athlon XP 1800 and downloaded the rpm myself. After md5sum is correct, I compiled the rpm source with -ivh

kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x.athlon.rpm is what I've got.
root@cp [/]#rpm -qa | grep 'kernel'
kernel-2.4.18-3
kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x
root@cp [/]# cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-27.7.x)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-27.7.x ro root=/dev/hda6
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-27.7.x.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda6
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
root@cp [/]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 1035660 154080 828972 16% /
/dev/hda1 31079 10317 19158 36% /boot
After I have made sure that all the above commands show me exactly what I would need to have, then do a reboot.

root@cp [/]# dmesg | more
Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr
18 07:32:41 EDT 2002
Did I miss any important steps? I have read some documentation online and couldn't find a hint on this.

Thanks .

 

 

 

 

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