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Centos 6 wont bootup after installing new kernel in update.

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https://www.centos.org – The ELRepo repository packages the nvidia drivers in a kernel independent manner such that they survive a kernel upgrade. Look for kmod-nvidia at ELRepo. [by TrevorH] (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 10/24/2012 – Made popular on 10/24/2012

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You might want to investigate the kmod-nvidia driver from ELRepo as this will survive kernel upgrades. Your current procedure will break every time there's a new kernel. [by TrevorH]

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Hi all,

Just now I ran yum update. There was an error message to the effect that the latest nvidia kmod (kmod-nvidia-3.6.1-1.fc17) didn't match the latest kernel, which is still in the 3.5 range.

So I reran yum excluding kernel and kmod-nvidia.

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