[ale] kernels on centos

[Todor Fassl]

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.

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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