I'm going to feel pretty silly if I disabled kernel updating somehow. :) Output of 'yum list \kernel*': [root at ssupp003 yum]# yum list \kernel* Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3.1 - Addons Server: CentOS-3.1 - Base Server: CentOS-3.1 - Extras Server: CentOS-3.1 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Looking in Available Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kernel athlon 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-BOOT i386 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-doc i386 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-hugemem i686 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-hugemem-unsupported i686 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-smp athlon 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-smp-unsupported i686 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-smp-unsupported athlon 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-unsupported i686 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update kernel-unsupported athlon 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 update Looking in Installed Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kernel i686 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 db kernel-pcmcia-cs i386 1:3.1.31-13 db kernel-smp i686 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 db kernel-source i386 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0 db kernel-utils i386 1:2.4-8.37.1 db yum.conf: [root at ssupp003 mysql]# cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-hugemem kernel-enterprise kernel-debug kernel-unsupported kernel-smp-unsupported kernel-hugemem-unsupported tolerant=1 exactarch=1 [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 #released updates [update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 #packages in testing #[testing] #name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ #gpgcheck=1 Thanks, Chris Lance Davis wrote: >Hmm - 'yum list \kernel*' ??? > >Also which mirror are you pointed at ??? >