You can find out the current Linux kernel version using any one of the following command: The following instructions should work on RHEL 7.x and clones such as Oracle 7.x, Scientific Linux and more. This tutorial shows you how to install the latest stable (mainline stable) Linux kernel version on a CentOS 7 using yum command. However, it is posssilbe to compile your own kernel or install pre built kernel using a third party repo. RHEL backports patches for the Linux kernel version 3.10.xx. Both RHEL and CentOS does not provide an updated version of Linux kernel. Is there is a way to run latest/stable Linux kernel on a CentOS Linux version 7?ĬentOS Linux 7.x runs the Linux kernel version 3.10.xx. Menuentry 'CentOS Linux (3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core)' -class centos -class gnu-linux -class gnu -class os -unrestricted $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-5.17. a new CentOS Linux 7 user who runs it on my Laptop. : of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfileĮxcluding 2 updates due to versionlock (use 'yum versionlock status' to show them)ĭescription : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager, Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. Please help as I can't really reinstall OS on this machine. Forgot to mention, the main reason why I was trying to do this is because neither cifs now nfs are working in this machine.įor cifs, I get mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system. Kernel.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7 3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7 have tried almost everything online like setting the default grub to 0 and whatnot but nothing worked.

When I run yum list kernel, this is what I get I also digged a bit deeper and found out that kernel modules are not really loaded for 42. Whenever I reboot, it keeps booting into 42 and there isn't an option in the grub menu to boot into 66. I have been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now.

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