Installation failed with ipv6 http address specified in inst.stage2

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • OS installation with ipv6 http address specified in inst.stage2 failed with below errors
dracut-initqueque[2042]: warning: Downloding 'http://<ipv6 address>/image/LiveOS/Squashfs.img' Failed!
dracut-initqueque[2042]: warning: anaconda: failed to fetch stage2 from http://<ipv6 address>/image

or

dracut-initqueue[1057]: /lib.net-lib.sh: line 648: [" too many arguments"
dracut-initqueue[1057]: /lib.net-lib.sh: line 648: [" too many arguments"
dracut-initqueue[1057]: /lib.net-lib.sh: line 648: [" too many arguments"
dracut-initqueue[1057]: /lib.net-lib.sh: line 648: [" too many arguments"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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