CENTOS9S-64-STD failed to boot

[Cheng Cui]

Hello,

I tried to boot `CENTOS9S-64-STD` on a D710 node, but it failed. Please take a look.

Nodes:
[Node: pc406]
in urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net:fbsd-transport+slice+centOS9 failed.

https://www.emulab.net/portal/status.php?uuid=9fa8207d-be44-11f0-bc80-e4434b2381fc

[Cheng Cui]

Update:

The same `CENTOS9S-64-STD` image also failed on a pc3000 node, with kernel panic during loading.

I also tried to boot the same image on a d430 node, it works.

[David M Johnson]

Hi Cheng,

Thanks for reporting this. I have fixed the image descriptor so it no
longer claims to work on pc3000 and d710 types.

(Years ago, the RHEL kernel team decided to actively remove older I/O
controller drivers from their builds, despite their continued presence
in the upstream vanilla kernel tree. For a time, we patched support
back in via DKMS, but this has gotten progressively more difficult. As
I recall, the pc3000s also only support the x86-64 base microarch level,
and RH9 moved its baseline to x86-64-v2 (and RH10 will be -v3).)

David

On 11/10/25 09:26, Cheng Cui wrote:
> Update:
> The same `CENTOS9S-64-STD` image also failed on a pc3000 node, with
> kernel panic during loading.
> I also tried to boot the same image on a d430 node, it works.
>
> On Monday, November 10, 2025 at 10:16:29 AM UTC-5 Cheng Cui wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I tried to boot `CENTOS9S-64-STD` on a D710 node, but it failed.
> Please take a look.
>
> Nodes:
> [Node: pc406]

> in urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net <http://emulab.net/>:fbsd-
> transport+slice+centOS9 failed.
>
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[Cheng Cui]

Hi David,

Thanks for the clarification.