diff --git a/.github/workflows/xcat_test.yml b/.github/workflows/xcat_test.yml
index 7159916c7..86d3d6c88 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/xcat_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/xcat_test.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Exercise image package policy
         if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
         run: prove xCAT-test/native/el10_image_package_policy.t
+      - name: Exercise image chroot mounts
+        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
+        run: prove xCAT-test/native/rh_genimage_chroot_mounts.t
       - name: Check Debian probe payload permissions
         if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
         run: bats xCAT-test/native/probe_debian_permissions.bats
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/genimage b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/genimage
index 1afc5d325..e6c2543ae 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/genimage
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/genimage
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ sub mount_chroot {
     }
 
     if (-d "/run") {
-        system("mount --bind /run $rootimg_dir/run");
+        system("mkdir -p $rootimage_dir/run");
+        system("mount --bind /run $rootimage_dir/run");
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/xCAT-test/native/README.md b/xCAT-test/native/README.md
index f5d6f834c..3678c74f4 100644
--- a/xCAT-test/native/README.md
+++ b/xCAT-test/native/README.md
@@ -86,15 +86,17 @@ Net::DNS:
 
 ```
 prove xCAT-test/native/genimage_network_drivers.t \
-      xCAT-test/native/el10_image_package_policy.t
+      xCAT-test/native/el10_image_package_policy.t \
+      xCAT-test/native/rh_genimage_chroot_mounts.t
 ```
 
 These cases run complete callers in private filesystems with no network.
 They check driver configuration after real driver-disk loading, media-import
-records and parsed RPM installation scriptlets.
+records, parsed RPM installation scriptlets and the mounts that a new RPM
+image has when its packages install.
 External package downloads, service management, disk mounts and initrd creation
 use command fixtures. These cases do not boot an image or qualify hardware.
-The two Perl image caller tests fail if run as root.
+The Perl image caller tests fail if run as root.
 
 The default BATS suite also runs `networkmanager_postscript.bats`. It renders
 installation postscripts and checks their network configuration in isolation.
diff --git a/xCAT-test/native/rh_genimage_chroot_mounts.t b/xCAT-test/native/rh_genimage_chroot_mounts.t
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5096d0d4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-test/native/rh_genimage_chroot_mounts.t
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use FindBin;
+use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
+use File::Path qw(make_path);
+use Test::More;
+use XCAT::Test::ImageSandbox;
+
+plan skip_all => 'Linux namespaces require Linux' unless $^O eq 'linux';
+die('Run the image caller tests as an unprivileged user') unless $>;
+
+my $image = 'work/image/rootimg';
+for my $case (['rh', 'rhels9.6'], ['rocky', 'rocky9.6'], ['rh', 'rhels6.10']) {
+    my ($builder, $os) = @$case;
+    my @expected = ("--bind /run /$image/run");
+    unshift @expected, "proc /$image/proc -t proc", "sysfs /$image/sys -t sysfs" unless $os eq 'rhels6.10';
+    for my $build (qw(first repeated)) {
+        subtest "$builder $os $build build" => sub {
+            my $box = XCAT::Test::ImageSandbox->new();
+            make_path("$box->{root}/install/$os/x86_64/repodata");
+            make_path(map { "$box->{root}/$image/$_" } qw(proc sys dev run)) if $build eq 'repeated';
+            $box->write('work/compute.pkglist', "bash\n");
+
+            # Like mount(8), the fixture refuses a mount point that does not exist.
+            $box->command('mount', <<'SH');
+mount=$*
+operands=0
+while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
+    case $1 in
+        -t|-o) shift ;;
+        -*) ;;
+        *) operands=$((operands + 1)); [ "$operands" -eq 2 ] && target=$1 ;;
+    esac
+    shift
+done
+if [ ! -d "$target" ]; then
+    printf 'mount: %s: mount point does not exist.\n' "$target" >&2
+    exit 32
+fi
+printf '%s\n' "$mount" >>/work/mounts
+SH
+            $box->command($_, ": >>/work/mounts\ncat /work/mounts >/work/install-mounts\nexit 1\n") for qw(dnf yum);
+
+            my ($rc, $output, $error) = $box->run('perl', "/repo/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/$builder/genimage",
+                '-a', 'x86_64', '-o', $os, '-p', 'compute', '--pkglist', '/work/compute.pkglist',
+                '--srcdir', "/install/$os/x86_64", '--rootimgdir', '/work/image', 'fixture-image');
+            ok(-f "$box->{root}/work/install-mounts", 'the build reaches the package installation')
+              or diag($output, $error);
+            unlike($error, qr/mount point does not exist/, 'every mount point exists before its mount');
+            my $mounts = -f "$box->{root}/work/install-mounts" ? $box->read('work/install-mounts') : '';
+            is_deeply([split /\n/, $mounts], \@expected, 'packages install with the host /run in the image');
+        };
+    }
+}
+done_testing();