RHEL7 kickstart seems hung when passing serial console boot option to kernel cmdline

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When passing serial console to kernel cmdline, for example console=ttyS0,115200n8r, as part of kickstart process, the installation looks stuck and not progressing.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

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