F29 Upgrade Still Boots F27 Kernel - Recommendations Please

[David Dembrow]

When I upgraded from F27 to F28 I noticed that it would still boot up 
with the F27 kernel.  I thought that eventually F28 would catch up with 
the periodic updates and it apparently has not.  Now that I have 
upgraded to F29 and it is still booting with the F27 kernel I would like 
to find a resolution.

This is on a few older systems which are using the 32-bit operating 
system.  I see boot options for a F29 i686, F28 i686, and F27 i686+PAE 
available.  It looks like the default is the F27 i686+PAE kernel.

I tried booting with the other kernels and the graphic login fails so I 
may not have another option.  Has my hardware gone obsolete?

Thanks for any suggestions.

---d.dembrow

[Roger Heflin]

A guess is that the /boot that is booting the machine is not the same
/boot is the current booted OS has mounted at /boot.

So all updates are being put on a /boot that is not being used to boot
the machine, and you need to find the actual /boot that is booting the
machine and then do a dnf reinstall <latestkernel>.   It may also mean
that the grub setup on /boot is different between the 2 boots.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 4:28 PM David Dembrow  wrote:
> When I upgraded from F27 to F28 I noticed that it would still boot up
> with the F27 kernel.  I thought that eventually F28 would catch up with
> the periodic updates and it apparently has not.  Now that I have
> upgraded to F29 and it is still booting with the F27 kernel I would like
> to find a resolution.
>
> This is on a few older systems which are using the 32-bit operating
> system.  I see boot options for a F29 i686, F28 i686, and F27 i686+PAE
> available.  It looks like the default is the F27 i686+PAE kernel.
>
> I tried booting with the other kernels and the graphic login fails so I
> may not have another option.  Has my hardware gone obsolete?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> ---d.dembrow
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[Samuel Sieb]

On 12/12/18 2:28 PM, David Dembrow wrote:
> This is on a few older systems which are using the 32-bit operating 
> system.  I see boot options for a F29 i686, F28 i686, and F27 i686+PAE 
> available.  It looks like the default is the F27 i686+PAE kernel.

The PAE kernels are no longer being built.  If this system really is 
only 32-bit, then your only option is to use the non-PAE 32-bit kernels.