foreman provisioning of rocky 9.5 fails

When I try to provision an new VM using foreman (on vmware 8) the installation fails with Service org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage has failed to start: Process org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage exited With status 1

Looking at journalctl -e i can see quite a few arrors when the system tries to load kernel modules like ext4, xfs etc.

modprobe: FATAL: Module ext4 not found in directory /lib/modules/<kernel version>

Interestingly both that string and uname -r tell me I'm at Kernel 5.14.0....el9_4.x86_64 but I'm installing Rocky Linux 9.5, confirmed by /etc/os-release.

Also before stopping, the installer waits roughly 1.5 minutes for /dev/zram0 which also fails.

So my guess would be that there is something wrong with my provisioning setup that pairs the wrong kernel to a newer operating system, which then is unable to load kernel modules properly. But I'm completely lost on how to fix this.