[CentOS] 3.8 update/x86_64 kernel?

Christian Nygaard christiannygaard at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 16:06:32 UTC 2006


Maybe your /boot partition is full?
Have you tried to install the new kernel manually?

//Chris

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