Kickstart on Dell R720 hangs at "detecting hardware"

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Issue

When kickstarting a RHEL 6 installation on a Dell R720 server the installation hangs at the following:

Detecting hardware...

This server has four built in netextreme cards, connected to one port, interface eth0.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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