RHEL 8.8 won't kickstart from thumb drive with 13th generation intel CPU Dell XPS 15 9530 (year 2023)

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We just got new new laptops that are Dell XPS 15 with the 13th generation Intel CPU. If I boot with a 8.8 USB thumb drive select troubleshooting then select basic graphics the installer starts and I can set the language. But because we have five of these systems I usually kickstart them. For kickstart I create a second partition on the thumb drive and place the .ks file. Next before I boot I hit the 'e' key to edit the boot options. In the past I use inst.ks=hd:UUID=xxxxxx-yyyy-zzzz and I place that right have quiet. With these newer laptops I will get the message "started cancel waiting for multipath siblings of nvmw0n1" so I also add nompath to the bootoptions. Typically when I boot with nompath and inst.ks options the error I get is "ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: ucsi_handle_connector_change: GET_CONNECTOR_STATUS failed (-110) then I am stuck.

If I use the same thumb drive (with no kickstart and no nompath boot options) and reboot the machine select troubleshooting->basic graphics the installer comes up fine.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance for the help.

TR

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