[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
>   
>> Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread.
>>     
>
> Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should 
> start there. rpm -qi kernel or maybe bad stuff in /etc/sysconfig kernel.
>
> The interesting error from RPM suggests that it thinks the machine is an i586 
> (or atleast not i686).
>   


indeed, lets add....

    $ cat /proc/cpuinfo

to the possibly interesting info to post here...