Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 land up into dracut shell and upon exit, continues installation?

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Issue

  • An internal Automation process creates an ISO image to be consumed by physical servers to get staged. The expected result is to stage a physical server which has VLAN tagged interface.
  • If one tries to stage a server over ISO and if NIC needs to use VLAN tagging (kickstart file has all necessary configuration), the staging stops with a dracut timeout error and eventually lands up into dracut# shell, upon typing exit, it continues installation without any problem.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
  • Kickstart installation

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