Red Hat provides three kernel flavors for the RHEL3 x86_64 port: 1. ia32e ==> smp, works on both EM64T and AMD64 2. x86_64 ==> up, works only on AMD64 3. x86_64smp ==> smp, works only on AMD64 To see which arch kernel you are running, do: # rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --qf "%{ARCH}\n" As always, the OCFS module needs to match the kernel flavor one is using. Please note that there in no "up" flavor for the EM64T kernel as these chips provide hyperthread support.