Maybe your /boot partition is full? <br>Have you tried to install the new kernel manually?<br><br>//Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Les Mikesell</b> <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">
lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:40 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote:
<br>> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 05:06:30PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:<br>> > After updating a very old x86_64 3.x install to 3.8 it still<br>> > has kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL. Then if I repeat the<br>> > yum update command, it offers to install kernel
2.4.21-47.EL.ia32e.<br>> ><br>> > Neither of these situations seems quite right.<br>><br>> What is your cpu? (/proc/cpuinfo)<br>> What does rpm think is your architecture?<br>> (rpm --showrc| head)
<br><br>---- cpuinfo --<br>The machines are ibm eserver 336's with 64-bit xeon's:<br>processor : 0<br>vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br>cpu family : 15<br>model : 4<br>model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU
2.80GHz<br>physical id : 0<br>siblings : 1<br>runqueue : 0<br>stepping : 8<br>cpu MHz : 2800.251<br>cache size : 0 KB<br>fpu : yes<br>fpu_exception : yes<br>cpuid level : 5
<br>wp : yes<br>flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge<br>mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm ferr syscall<br>lm sse3 monitor ds-cpl gv3 cnxt-id<br>bogomips :
5583.66<br>clflush size : 64<br>address sizes : 0 bits physical, 0 bits virtual<br>power management:<br><br>(cpu 1 is the same)<br>-----<br><br>Rpm says:<br>ARCHITECTURE AND OS:<br>build arch : x86_64<br>compatible build archs: ia32e x86_64 noarch
<br>build os : Linux<br>compatible build os's : linux<br>install arch : ia32e<br>install os : Linux<br>compatible archs : ia32e x86_64 athlon noarch amd64 i686 i586 i486<br>i386<br>compatible os's : linux
<br><br>-----<br><br>> If you think it's a bug, please fill a report at <a href="http://bugs.centos.org">http://bugs.centos.org</a><br><br>I think having ia32e in there is a bug, but I'm not sure where it<br>belongs. It may be left from some old version of the installer.
<br>What current x86_64 kernel should be installed and do you have any<br>suggestions on how to fix things?<br><br>--<br> Les Mikesell<br> <a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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