rhel8.8 dracut-initqueue timeout loop when booting from pxe server in virtualized environment UEFI

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i'm setting up a pxe server to boot from UEFI rhel8 guest OS over the net. I see these error messages when the system is trying to load the kernel... dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts" messages in loop while booting

this is what i see right before the dracut loop...
the loops ends with the system starting the dracut emergency shell and a
Warning: /dev/root does not exist message error

can someone pls explain what is going on.... i've been banging my head at this for quite some time now

also, this is my grub.cfg
set timeout=60
menuentry 'RHEL 8' {
linuxefi images/RHEL-8/vmlinuz ip=dhcp
inst.repo=http://servername/rhel8-install/
initrdefi images/RHEL-8/initrd.img
}

inst.repo location has a valid .treeinfo

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