[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Tue Feb 26 05:47:34 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

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.
>
>   

yeah.

# cat /etc/rpm/platform
i686-redhat-linux

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 807.984
...

(oldest thing I've put C5 on)