On Nov 9, 2003, at 4:18 PM, Bart Garst wrote:

> Sounds like a boot-loader issue.
>
> WARNING!!! Its a REALLY good idea to have a working boot disk before 
> you
> go messing around with your boot-loader.
>
> I don't think grub shipped with RH7.0 so look in /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> Look for lines:
>   That says 'default=...'
>   That start with 'image=/...'.
>
> Whichever the 'default' is pointing to is probably the multiprocessor
> kernel. Change the default line to point to the other one (or post what
> you see and we'll help you figure it out).
>
> After you change /etc/lilo.conf you need to run (as root) 'lilo' to
> record the changes to the boot-record.

This was it exactly. Just changing where  the default was  changing 
solved the problem.