Booted straight to the CentOS 4 ISO, went into linux rescue, updated the initrd img and bam. working system from the current (as of 4 days ago) manual disk images I made.
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Next project to re-learn how they restore data files. Have not done that in almost 10 years. Having no virtual infrastructure to play with, prior to this, made that harder.

That put 4.19.13 back and now it boots

[jbusch@naggaroth ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade --refresh [sudo] password for jbusch: Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Mon 07 Jan 2019 11:31:06 AM CST. Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================================== Installing dependencies: kernel x86_64 4.19.13-200.fc28 updates 102 k kernel-core x86_64 4.19.13-200.fc28 updates 24 M kernel-modules x86_64 4.19.13-200.fc28 updates 28 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================================================================== Install 3 Packages

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What I think of every time I hear the phrase "kernel panic":

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