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    Stuck on 'Starting dracut initqueue hook' ... on RHEL 7.5 Kickstart installation

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    I am creating a dev kickstart.iso based on dvd.iso from RHEL 7.5 version but the installation is stuck on the below message and nothing is happening.

    [OK] Started Open -iSCSI.
    Starting dracut initqueue hook....

    Below is the Kickstart label on my isolinux.cfg

    label kickstart
    menu label ^Kickstart 7.5
    menu default
    kernel vmlinuz
    append ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=RHEL-7.5\x20Server.x86_64 initrd=initrd.img xdriver=vesa nomodeset biosdevname=0 quiet

    Grub.cfg contains the following
    set default="1"

    function load_video {
    insmod efi_gop
    insmod efi_uga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
    insmod all_video
    }

    load_video
    set gfxpayload=keep
    insmod gzio
    insmod part_gpt
    insmod ext2

    set timeout=60

    END /etc/grub.d/00_header

    search --no-floppy --set=root -l 'RHEL-7.5 Server.x86_64'

    BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux

    menuentry 'Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
    linuxefi /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=RHEL-7.5\x20Server.x86_64 quiet
    initrdefi /images/pxeboot/initrd.img
    }
    menuentry 'Test this media & install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
    linuxefi /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=RHEL-7.5\x20Server.x86_64 rd.live.check quiet
    initrdefi /images/pxeboot/initrd.img
    }
    submenu 'Troubleshooting -->' {
    menuentry 'Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 in basic graphics mode' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
    linuxefi /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=RHEL-7.5\x20Server.x86_64 xdriver=vesa nomodeset quiet
    initrdefi /images/pxeboot/initrd.img
    }
    menuentry 'Rescue a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
    linuxefi /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=RHEL-7.5\x20Server.x86_64 rescue quiet
    initrdefi /images/pxeboot/initrd.img
    }
    }

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