Yehey!!! It now works!
I just want to share this so people won't make my mistakes.
It turns out that the reason the other installed kernels wouldn't boot is
that they weren't x86_64 kernels (I think). For some reason, YUM kept
fetching and installing the 32-bit ones (1386 or 1686).
I couldn't manually install the x86_64 kernels at first. I kept getting an
error message that the kerbnel I was trying to install was for the x86_64
architecture. The problem was that my computer *WAS* an x86_64!
After a lot of useless poking around, I found an RPM option to ignore the
architecture. So the command I used was:
# rpm -ivh --force --ignorearch <kernel_package.x86_64.rpm>
This worked and installed the x86_64 kernel. It boots now.
I can't undertsand why YUM can't seem to select the right x86_64 packages.
Maybe I have some variable that I have to set somewhere so that it knows
my hardware is x86_64.
Of course, recompiling would have been more fun. But I'll save that
adventure for another time.
Thanks all! God bless!
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