Failed to start any RHEL 8-based Linux on M1 Pro mac (stuck on the GRUB menu)

[echupriyanov]

Description

I'm trying to start any arm64 RHEL 8 based Linux using lima with provided examples. But it even can't boot and stuck on the GRUB menu:

x86-64 VMs are working fine Ubuntu arm64 is working fine too. The only issue is with RHEL8 based distros. What can be wrong here?

[sdadh01]

I have the same issue (M1 Pro Mac, latest versions of everything). Before the grub menu appears in the serial.log this appears until grub times out:

EFI stub: ERROR: This 64 KB granular kernel is not supported by your CPU

  Failed to boot both default and fallback entries.

Press any key to continue...

Subtly different error to issue 712 but maybe the same cause?

[blissdev]

I'm experiencing this issue as well on an M1 Max MBP.

[AkihiroSuda]

According to https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/installation-of-rocky-not-proceeding-in-macbook-pro-m1-silicon-chip/4734 :

It’s unfortunately not possible right now. The aarch64 kernel assumes a 64k page size that is NOT supported on M1 macs. M1 page size is 4k or 16k.

EL9 should work on M1.