Kickstart Installation failing with Static IP address in a DHCP less network.

Issue

• There is a kickstart server containing kickstart profiles hosted in using http
• The network contains no DHCP server, all the machines have static IP addresses.
• Bare metal kickstart installation is failing to get Kickstart profile from the kickstart server when initiated with the following anaconda boot parameters.

boot: linux ks=http://server.example.com/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0 text

• The following messages can be seen in another consoles.

11:16:36,542 INFO    : kernel command line: linux ks=http://server.example.com/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0 text initrd=initrd.img \ BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img vmlinuz
11:16:36,542 INFO    : text mode forced from cmdline
11:16:36,542 INFO    : anaconda version 13.21.117 on x86_64 starting
11:16:36,562 INFO    : 2055868 kB are available
11:16:42,029 INFO    : Trying to detect vendor driver discs
11:16:46,623 INFO    : getting kickstart file
11:16:46,629 ERROR   : eth0 has link, using it
11:16:46,629 ERROR   : failed to configure network interface
11:16:46,629 ERROR   : unable to activate device eth0

• If the command line parameter asknetwork is used to configure Static IP information first, then installation completes properly, but hostname can't get set. Following works fine.

boot: linux ks=http://server.example.com/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0 text asknetwork