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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by IceyEC on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:44AM (#16122112)
This seems like one of those things that is very hard to get right: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=823033
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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by snuxoll on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:22AM (#16124420)
I'm guessing Xen PV isn't well tested by Red Hat anymore since most (if not all) of their paying customers still (stuck) using it are likely on RHEL5, which they haven't released a patch for yet due to that very reason.

I'm kind of shocked Amazon doesn't have something like Linode's Fennix, but you can always do an EBS snapshot of your /boot volume and revert it if a kernel upgrade breaks stuff.

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