i'm installing a free kernel from centos 7 to try it out. of course, this is probably a different kind of phone, it might be interesting, and at least might give me an error i can websearch for.
my system may fail to reboot, in which case it could be a while ;p i'm thinking maybe for working aroudn i would start another redhat subscription, boot off some kind of boot media, and install a normative kernel
