diff --git a/scripts/serve-frank-large.sh b/scripts/serve-frank-large.sh
index 69bc00f..5f141ee 100755
--- a/scripts/serve-frank-large.sh
+++ b/scripts/serve-frank-large.sh
@@ -116,8 +116,11 @@ done
 
 # --device /dev/mem exists for the fleet's other GPU containers; the GTT
 # aperture (114 GiB) needs no size knob. Models mount read-only wholesale so
-# spec drafts resolve from disk, and the HF cache mount keeps tokenizer
-# metadata out of the container's ephemeral layer.
+# spec drafts resolve from disk. THE PATH HANDED TO vllm IS THE CONTAINER
+# PATH: the engine runs inside this container, and a host path that is not
+# mounted at the same location dies as "Repo id must be in the form
+# 'namespace/repo_name'" (2026-10-01 first boot, 51 crash-loop restarts).
+MODEL_CONTAINER_DIR="/models/${FRANK_LARGE_MODEL_DIR##*/}"
 podman run -d \
     --name "$FRANK_LARGE_CONTAINER" \
     --device /dev/kfd --device /dev/dri --device /dev/mem \
@@ -129,7 +132,7 @@ podman run -d \
     -p "$FRANK_LARGE_PUBLISH" \
     --entrypoint vllm \
     "$FRANK_LARGE_IMAGE" \
-    serve "$FRANK_LARGE_MODEL_DIR" \
+    serve "$MODEL_CONTAINER_DIR" \
     --served-model-name "$FRANK_LARGE_SERVED_NAME" \
     --host 0.0.0.0 --port "${FRANK_LARGE_PUBLISH##*:}" \
     --dtype bfloat16 \
diff --git a/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md b/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md
index b29de60..0ccb4b0 100644
--- a/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md
+++ b/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md
@@ -213,14 +213,20 @@ The LLM inference fleet on the two hosts. Full index:
   agentionai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ROCmFP4-FAST-imatrix (87.06 GiB,
   Q4_0_ROCMFP4_FAST) + own MTP draft, build-qwen38 (retired 2026-08-30;
   rollback record)
-- [[frank-large-gufo-qwen38-27b]] — the ACTIVE frank-large runbook since
-  2026-09-28 (root systemd unit, port 7770): gufo (gufo-org/gufo) v0.1.1,
-  the Strix Halo inference engine, built from source on Dankclaw and
-  serving unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:UD-Q8_K_XL (a 27B dense model) with the
-  z-lab DFlash2 Q4_K_M drafter on the gfx1151 iGPU — one 262,144-token
-  conversation, adaptive block policy, greedy, text-only, the two
-  from-source build workarounds, what changed in the client contract, the
-  measured prefill/decode trade against llama.cpp
+- [[frank-large-vllm-mimo-v26-bf16]] — the ACTIVE frank-large runbook
+  since 2026-10-01 (root systemd unit, port 7770): the digest-pinned
+  kyuz0/vllm-therock-gfx1151 image (vLLM 0.30, TheRock ROCm 10) serving
+  XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B in FULL BF16 on the gfx1151 iGPU,
+  4 x 262,144 ctx, with CROSS-MODEL MTP spec decode from Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B —
+  the roof math (13.1 t/s base is ~94% of LPDDR5x BF16), the measured
+  MTP-vs-DFlash table (19.8 vs 17.4 t/s), the greedy-text numerics trap,
+  the `reasoning` field change, troubleshooting
+- [[frank-large-gufo-qwen38-27b]] — RETIRED 2026-09-28 → 2026-10-01
+  (replaced by [[frank-large-vllm-mimo-v26-bf16]]; rollback via tag
+  frank-large-gufo-q4kxl-20261001): gufo v0.1.1 built from source serving
+  Qwen3.8-27B GGUF + the z-lab DFlash2 drafter on the gfx1151 iGPU — the
+  two from-source build workarounds, the client-contract delta, the
+  measured prefill/decode trade
 - [[frank-large-unsloth-qwen38-27b-q8xl]] — RETIRED 2026-09-28 (replaced by
   [[frank-large-gufo-qwen38-27b]]; rollback target): stock llama.cpp
   (unsloth b11030, ROCm gfx1151) serving
diff --git a/serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md b/serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md
index e06f2b0..15e3f07 100644
--- a/serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md
+++ b/serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md
@@ -912,3 +912,16 @@ any repo service.
   DFlash 2.58 GiB), disk down to ~26 GiB free - reclaim pass due. gufo
   rollback pinned at git tag `frank-large-gufo-q4kxl-20261001`; engine,
   Q4_K_XL payload and DFlash2 drafter all remain on the host.
+- First deploy attempt #2 crash-looped the container 51 times: the serve
+  script handed vLLM the HOST model path while the tree is mounted at
+  `/models` inside the container — transformers rejected it as a malformed
+  repo id. Fixed by converting to the container path (the spec draft was
+  already converted; the target was not), pinned by bats. Also fixed the
+  deployer's own draft gate (same single-file bug as the serve script's).
+- Reclaim (Frank approved): Swift-1.5 Q8_K_XL payload (30 G, refetchable via
+  `scripts/download-frank-large-swift.sh`) and the orphaned flux-2-klein
+  tree under `models/checkpoints` (23 G; ComfyUI mounts
+  `comfyui-data/models`, not this) purged via
+  `~/.AGENTTRASH/20261001-frank-large-reclaim/` — 52 G freed. KEPT the
+  1.1 G `Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-Q4_K_M.gguf` (it is the gufo rollback's
+  drafter, not a remnant).
diff --git a/tests/frank_large_unit.bats b/tests/frank_large_unit.bats
index 8e5a5e8..9589a96 100755
--- a/tests/frank_large_unit.bats
+++ b/tests/frank_large_unit.bats
@@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ FETCH_MTPSRC="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/download-frank-large-qwen35.sh"
     grep -q -- '--dtype bfloat16' "$SERVE"
     grep -q -- '--trust-remote-code' "$SERVE"
     grep -q -- '--ulimit memlock=-1:-1' "$SERVE"
+    # vllm runs INSIDE the container: the model path handed to `serve` is
+    # the /models mount path, never the host path (2026-10-01: the host
+    # path crash-looped 51 times on "Repo id must be in the form…").
+    grep -q 'serve "$MODEL_CONTAINER_DIR"' "$SERVE"
+    grep -q 'MODEL_CONTAINER_DIR="/models/' "$SERVE"
+    ! grep -qE '^\s+serve "\$FRANK_LARGE_MODEL_DIR"' "$SERVE"
 }
 
 @test "speculative decode is cross-model MTP BY MEASUREMENT" {