I can’t install Rocky Linux 10 on my ProLiant BL460c Gen8. I use Rocky-10.0-x86_64-dvd1.iso and present it to blade via HP ILO. Then It boots up I can see the initial menu. There I select menuitem “Install Rocky Linux 10.0” and after this it silently reboot.
I did several attemts by adding debug and rd.debug to boot parameters and this allows me to see few more lines like
Booting a command list
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)… ok
And then anyway reboot.
Kindly ask for advices how to install Rocky Linux 10 on this server.
It looks like your CPU is Intel® Xeon® E5-2600/v2 and RHEL 10 (so RL10 as well) requires at least x86_64 v3 architecture CPUs.
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Fedora Linux 42 which is also based on Linux Kernel 6 is able to boot and install without any problem.
That’s because Fedora isn’t locked to specific hardware like what Red Hat do, and thus Rocky as well has this limitation. So unless your CPU is x86_64-v3 you cannot use RHEL10 or Rocky 10.
The issue is that compiler options dictate what CPU instructions the binaries will have.
One can build different binaries from same sources. Example: CentOS ISA SIG Performance Investigation – Blog.CentOS.org
The RHEL 10 and Rocky 10 are built with options that do use AVX2 and other x86-64-v3 instructions. Those binaries cannot execute if CPU does not have those instructions.
Red Hat has their rationale for that: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/01/02/exploring-x86-64-v3-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10
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AlmaLinux 10 x86-64-v2 should work.