[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

[Bob Taylor]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:43 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> Garrick Staples wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:25:32AM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker alleged:
> > > Bob Taylor wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > > > > The contents of,
> > > > > 
> > > > > # cat /etc/rpm/platform
> > > > 
> > > > i386-redhat-linux
> > > 
> > > Good
> > 
> > Isn't that the problem?  All of my machines say i686, athlon, 
> > ia32e, x86_64,
> > etc.  None of them say i386.
> 
> Ooops, I saw i686 when I looked the first time, yes, this should
> be i686-redhat-linux. Good catch.
> 
> Bob, can you try manually changing this to say i686-redhat-linux,
> I believe this is auto-generated at boot so it isn't a permanent
> fix, but lets see if it updates after this by booting into the
> older kernel (may need to manually change this file again),
> removing the newer kernel and then try a 'yum update'.

Will try this tomorrow. rpm won't let me remove the kernel it installed.
-- 
Bob Taylor