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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060828/67d2266e/attachment-0005.html>