Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 fail with the error "BootLoaderError: bootloader install failed" ?

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Issue

  • Kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 fails with the following error/traceback.
BootLoaderError: bootloader install failed
  • Why does it happen?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Kickstart installation

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