diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu22.04.ppc64el.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu22.04.ppc64el.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8eaecec0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu22.04.ppc64el.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+bash
+ifupdown
+nfs-common
+openssl
+isc-dhcp-client
+libc-bin
+linux-image-generic
+openssh-server
+openssh-client
+wget
+vim
+rsync
+busybox-static
+gawk
+bind9-dnsutils
+tar
+gzip
+xz-utils
+cpio
+chrony
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu22.04.ppc64le.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu22.04.ppc64le.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8eaecec0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu22.04.ppc64le.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+bash
+ifupdown
+nfs-common
+openssl
+isc-dhcp-client
+libc-bin
+linux-image-generic
+openssh-server
+openssh-client
+wget
+vim
+rsync
+busybox-static
+gawk
+bind9-dnsutils
+tar
+gzip
+xz-utils
+cpio
+chrony
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu24.04.ppc64el.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu24.04.ppc64el.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8eaecec0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu24.04.ppc64el.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+bash
+ifupdown
+nfs-common
+openssl
+isc-dhcp-client
+libc-bin
+linux-image-generic
+openssh-server
+openssh-client
+wget
+vim
+rsync
+busybox-static
+gawk
+bind9-dnsutils
+tar
+gzip
+xz-utils
+cpio
+chrony
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu24.04.ppc64le.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu24.04.ppc64le.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8eaecec0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu24.04.ppc64le.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+bash
+ifupdown
+nfs-common
+openssl
+isc-dhcp-client
+libc-bin
+linux-image-generic
+openssh-server
+openssh-client
+wget
+vim
+rsync
+busybox-static
+gawk
+bind9-dnsutils
+tar
+gzip
+xz-utils
+cpio
+chrony
diff --git a/xCAT-test/unit/ubuntu_ppc64el_pkglists.t b/xCAT-test/unit/ubuntu_ppc64el_pkglists.t
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af36e606b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-test/unit/ubuntu_ppc64el_pkglists.t
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use FindBin;
+use Test::More;
+
+# genimage builds the netboot initrd for ppc64el with mkinitrd, not dracut, and mkinitrd
+# copies usr/bin/dig out of the rootimg. A release with no ppc64el package list falls back
+# to compute.pkglist, which installs no dig, and genimage stops with
+# "Failed to find usr/bin/dig". The package that holds dig changed name in 22.04.
+
+use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
+use XCAT::Test::File qw(repo_path);
+
+my $netboot = 'xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu';
+
+sub packages {
+    my ($path) = @_;
+    my $full = repo_path($path);
+    return unless -r $full;
+    open(my $fh, '<', $full) or die "cannot read $full: $!";
+    my @packages = grep { length && !/^#/ } map { my $l = $_; chomp $l; $l =~ s/\s+//g; $l } <$fh>;
+    close($fh);
+    return \@packages;
+}
+
+foreach my $release (qw(20.04 22.04 24.04 26.04)) {
+    my $list = packages("$netboot/compute.ubuntu$release.ppc64el.pkglist");
+    ok($list, "$release has a ppc64el netboot package list");
+
+    SKIP: {
+        skip "no $release ppc64el package list to inspect", 4 unless $list;
+
+        ok(scalar(grep { $_ eq 'dnsutils' || $_ eq 'bind9-dnsutils' } @{$list}),
+            "the $release ppc64el image installs the dig that mkinitrd copies");
+        ok(scalar(grep { $_ eq 'linux-image-generic' } @{$list}),
+            "the $release ppc64el image installs a kernel");
+        ok(scalar(grep { $_ eq 'nfs-common' } @{$list}),
+            "the $release ppc64el image can mount its root over NFS");
+        is_deeply(packages("$netboot/compute.ubuntu$release.ppc64le.pkglist"), $list,
+            "the $release ppc64le list matches the ppc64el list");
+    }
+}
+
+done_testing();