Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux s390x stops at error "In interactive step cleardiskssel, can't continue" ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While trying to build a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 guest on zvm (ie s390x) using a FBA disk via kickstart, following error appears
02:50:42,631 DEBUG   : registered action: Create Format ext4 on partition dasdb1 (id 1)
In interactive step cleardiskssel, can't continue
  • The kickstart file contains the following information on partitioning.
zerombr 
bootloader --location mbr
partition / --onpart=dasdb1 --fstype=ext4 
  • The disk is a raw one.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 s390x
  • Kickstart

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