[ale] kernels on centos

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 15:56 -0600, Todor Fassl wrote:
> You called it.
> /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13
> 
> Custom compiled kernel, source still in /usr/src/kernels/. It looks like 
> he/she installed some patches for nvidea.  Well, I guess it's obvious 
> why it's not in /boot, it was full. But I removed 2 of the 3 2.6.32 
> kernels and /boot is now only 81% full. At least I can now do the 'yum 
> update'.
> 
> I've never managed a centos machine before, just debian and ubuntu. I 
> may declare my work here done. I got the machine back in the condor 
> pool. That is all I was asked to do.  Unless the researcher askme to do 
> more, I'm going to quit while I am ahead.

Good plan. Condor is bad enough. Adding a new distro on top is is just
masochism. :-)

> 
> On 02/19/2015 03:37 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > 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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