Robert wrote: [snip]
[root@mavis download]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-22.EL kernel-2.6.9-22.EL kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-22.EL kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.69 kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL kernel-doc-2.6.9-22.EL kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.EL [root@mavis download]#
Yum will try to update all your installed kernels. If you don't want kernel-smp, remove it and yum will quit getting updates for it.
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To find that the ^%#$@ smp kernel is once more the default!
And THAT is why this automagic stuff sometimes scares hell outta me.
So edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel .