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

Tue Oct 14 08:24:06 UTC 2014
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>

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