[ale] kernels on centos

[Jim Kinney]

And now you know _why_ you inherited that box :-)

So grub is running it from a kernel that was parked somewhere. No big
matter. As it's a not grub2, go into /boot/grub and read the grub.conf
file for the location of that phantom kernel.

Note - all RHEL/CentOS 6.x kernel will be 2.6.32-X.Y.Z

Probably a good idea to not have the phantom kernel booting unless you
can find docs that explain why a non-vendor provided kernel is being
used.

Once you are on a "normal kernel", you can run 
yum remove kernel-2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64

to free space in /boot for an upgrade kernel (latest is 2.6.32-504.8.1)


On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 15:24 -0600, Todor Fassl wrote:
> I just inherited a centos system. Googling shows me that I probably want 
> to do "yum update". But it generates an error saying that /boot is full. 
> rpm -p kernel shows this:
> 
> 
> # rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64
> 
> 
> But uname -r says I'm running 2.6.35 ...
> 
> 
> # uname -r
> 2.6.35.13
> 
> 
> There is no conf or map or vmlunuz for 2.6.35 either. Where is it 
> getting a 2.6.35 kernel when its not in the package list or in /boot?
> 
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