RHEL 7 PXE booting fails to due a switchport shutdown because of some BPDU guard feature

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Installing RHEL via PXE always stalls at the same point. Investigation shows the switchport connected to the host was shutdown due to some BPDU guard feature.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • PXE Boot
  • dracut

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