Why did kickstart installation halt with a garbage characters on blue screen?

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Issue

  • While trying to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 machine using kickstart file, anaconda downloads the stage2.img file as well.
  • But suddenly, it displays a screen with random garbage characters on a blue screen as follows.
    bluescreen-1.jpg

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • Kickstart Installation

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