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

Tue Oct 14 08:12:47 UTC 2014
Joakim Ziegler <joakim at terminalmx.com>

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.

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