[CentOS] CentOS 6.4 kernel panic on boot after upgrading kernel to 2.6.32-431.29.2

[Joakim Ziegler]

On 14/10/14, 3:24, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> On 10/14/2014 10:12 AM, Joakim Ziegler wrote:
>> On 14/10/14, 1:19, Greg Lindahl wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:18:54PM -0500, Joakim Ziegler wrote:
>>>> I'm on a Supermicro server, X9DA7 motherboard, Intel C602 chipset, 2x
>>>> 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5-2665 8-core CPU, 96GB RAM, and I'm running
>>>> CentOS 6.4.

>>>> I just tried to use yum to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.32-358 to
>>>> 2.6.32-431.29.2.

>>> Is that a 6.4 kernel? Seems like it ought to be 6.5 from the date.

>>>> But, I'm pretty sure this must be something simple I'm missing. Ideas
>>>> for
>>>> figuring it out?

>>> Yeah: don't run random combinations of rpms and then ask the mailing
>>> list for support.

>> I don't know. yum info doesn't say anything about it being a 6.4 or 6.5
>> kernel (nor does it say that about the 2.6.32-358 package). How can I
>> tell if a package is intended for 6.4 or 6.5? The release field simply
>> contains "el6", nothing about minor version.

> that's because there is no spoon, there's just el6...
> http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-dcca41e9a3d5ac4c6d900a991990fd11930867d6

Ok, so is that a confirmation that installing this kernel, even though it might 
be "for 6.5" should not in itself break anything, and that it should boot?

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