Service Issue - Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot issues

The issue started at 20:29 UTC on May 5, 2025.
The investigation revealed that the issue started following the rollout of the software release to support the latest version of Fedora. We rolled back the release to mitigate the impact. We can confirm that the issue is now mitigated as of 02:56 UTC on May 6, 2025 and no longer occurring. We apologize for the impact and thank you for your patience and continued support. Our subject matter experts are continuing to investigate the root cause and will take appropriate preventive actions. We are committed to making continuous improvements to make our systems better and prevent recurrence.

Our subject matter experts are actively investigating this issue. We will provide the next update as we make progress.

The current workaround for the issue is booting your Linode with the Latest 64-bit kernel. You can change the kernel your Linode is using to boot by following the instructions here: https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/manage-the-kernel-on-a-compute-instance

Our team is investigating a service issue affecting the boot process of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based distributions. Systems running non-64-bit kernels may fail to boot, while distributions using the 64-bit kernel remain unaffected.