# Packer build a custom RockyLinux 8.10 AWS AMI

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**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Tags:** rocky-linux-8\
**Created:** [November 4, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/packer-build-a-custom-rockylinux-8-10-aws-ami/19833 "2025-11-04T03:22:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![joe.huang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@joe.huang](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/joe.huang)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/packer-build-a-custom-rockylinux-8-10-aws-ami/19833/1 "2025-11-04T03:22:24Z")

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Hi, as title:  
I’ve found that here are two types of AMIs from website (AWS AMI)here at Region: ap-northeast-1 :  
One is Rocky-8-EC2-Base-8.10-20240528.0.x86\_64  
and another is Rocky-8-EC2-LVM-8.10-20240528.0.x86\_64  
How should I know which one is booting without LVM?!  
Or just pick up “Rocky-8-EC2-Base-8.10-20240528.0.x86\_64“ as my packer build base image?

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**Author:** ![label](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/packer-build-a-custom-rockylinux-8-10-aws-ami/19833/2 "2025-11-04T04:44:26Z")

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LVM implies that it is using LVM for its partitions. Base does not have LVM.

If you are concerned about the partition layout or what the image contains, you can obtain them here without deploying in AWS directly: [Rocky Linux Repository](https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/)

The kickstarts that built the images are here: [GitHub - rocky-linux/kickstarts at r8](https://github.com/rocky-linux/kickstarts/tree/r8)

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**Author:** ![joe.huang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@joe.huang](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/joe.huang)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/packer-build-a-custom-rockylinux-8-10-aws-ami/19833/3 "2025-11-04T05:07:06Z")

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It’s useful!  
OK, thank you very much!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 5:07am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/packer-build-a-custom-rockylinux-8-10-aws-ami/19833/4 "2026-01-03T05:07:44Z")

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