Ah, I knew there was some aspect of this I was missing, and now it's all much clearer. Thanks for the info, guys! Mike On 6/27/2017 9:04 AM, Uli Middelberg wrote: > Am 26.06.2017 um 20:31 schrieb Jim Perrin: >> The pine64 doesn't support UEFI so you won't have /boot/efi/EFI. The >> 3.10 kernel is a vendor kernel not supplied by CentOS. Effectively only >> the userland tools are updated via yum, and grub will have little to no >> effect as you're not booting in the 'normal' way. > Hello Mike, > > as Jim already wrote, none of the CentOS updates will change the kernel nor the firmware on the Pine64. > > If you are looking for a recent kernel (4.9 or later), you will have to update the Pine64 firmware, > since the stock firmware cannot boot a mainline kernel and a mainline u-boot firmware won't > boot a legacy kernel. > > You have two options: > > 1. You download the latest experimental Pine64 Armbian Image [1] as a foundation to build CentOS upon [2]. > > 2. You build CentOS from scratch on the Pine64 [3] (or any other ARM64 board), if you have a card reader or a free > SDcard slot. > > > [1] https://dl.armbian.com/pine64/nightly/Armbian_5.27.170614_Pine64_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.11.1.7z > [2] https://github.com/umiddelb/aarch64/wiki/Install-CentOS-7-on-your-favourite-ARMv8-ARM64-AArch64-board > [3] https://github.com/umiddelb/z2d/tree/master/pine64 > > Cheers > Uli > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev >