Kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ends up in dracut shell with error /dev/root does not exist
Issue
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Why does the kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 end up in
dracut
shell?[ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. dracut-initqueue[704]: Warning: Could not boot. [ OK arning: /dev/root does not exist Generating "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue. Type "journalctl" to view system logs. You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB stick or /boot after mounting them and attach it to a bug report.
- Unable to install RHEL 7 through
kickstart
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Kickstart/PXE installations
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