[CentOS] 3.8 update/x86_64 kernel?

Mon Aug 28 20:54:11 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 18:36 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote:

> Well, Intel 64 bits on Xeon is IA32E. x86_64 on CentOS-3 is AMD's.
> If you look at /boot/config-2.4.21-47.EL, you will see that ia32e is SMP too.
> IA32E has been there since 3.4
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/docs/release-notes/as-amd64/RELEASE-NOTES-U4-x86_64-en.html

Thanks - I thought the *ia* kernels were for Itaniums, not xeons. It
does
seem to work OK.  However, up till now yum has not offered to update the
kernel.

> The updated yum fixes the ia32e not being recognised.
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=899

That was probably the reason.

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