Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation failed with "Failed to switch root: Specified switch root path /sysroot does not seem to be an OS tree. os-release file is missing."
Issue
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 installation failed with the following error.
Failed to switch root: Specified switch root path /sysroot does not seem to be an OS tree. os-release file is missing.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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