[CentOS] Yum Troubles

Sun Jul 27 20:16:52 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Matt wrote:
> ...
>
> Do I just "rpm -e" the older ones?  Which ones dont I remove?
>
> I see something like this in grub.conf:
>
> default=1
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title CentOS (2.6.9-67.0.20.EL)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL.img
> title CentOS (2.6.9-67.0.20.ELsmp)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.20.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-67.0.20.ELsmp.img
> title CentOS (2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp.img
> title CentOS (2.6.9-67.0.15.EL)
> .......................
>   


I'd probably remove everything older than 2.6.9-67   your grub currently 
specifies default=1 (numbered from 0) so thats 2.6.9-67.0.20.ELsmp
which `uname -a` should confirm.