[CentOS] 7.2 kernel panic on boot

Mon Dec 7 13:29:05 UTC 2015
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 07:03:53AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 1.  The CentOS Release package does not get updated until the full
> release.  It will not be updated in CR repo, but will be part of the
> final rollout which includes installable ISOs, etc.  Neither will
> Anaconda, which will also be updated in the full upcoming release.
> 
> The CR repo is the rest of the updates (earlier that the final release)
> as we still to the final QA. This is all spelled out here:
> 
> https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR

Ah, I didn't know that.  Makes sense.

My point was just that /etc/centos-release reflects the packages you
have installed, and not what kernel you've booted into.

However, /etc/issue is intepreted by the login service to use your
kernel release so it will reflect your kernel.


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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>