if I literally throw away that package, it boots. And what I just got from my collgue: all packages installed, vmware and model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6338N CPU @ 2.20GHz as CPU seen on the VM's, he installed 15.5 (SLES) --> missing lv's and pv's he just removed ucode-intel and it boots.... regarding the question about the output of `dracut -f --debug test.img`? I then need to forcefully f* up one instance. Not sure if we can do. At work, these vm's ertainly cannot be f* up. The images are not unified ones, specifically built on all the respective images. I even have see a VM where both ucode-intel AND ucode-amd were installed as rpm's. The plot thickens.