Kickstart Fails, Resulting In Multiple Notable Errors

Issue

• When kickstarting a RHEL server, the installer successfully downloads the kickstart file but then shows a warning about the main image path.

  [ 15.917872] dracut-initqueue[1394]:    % Total   % Received % Xferd  Average Speed     Time    Time    Time Current
  [ 15.918079] dracut-initqueue[1394];                                  Dload  Upload    Total   Spent    Left   Speed
                                        100  2501 100     2501 0     0   814k       0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:-:--    814k
  [ 16.433623] dracut-initqueue[1394]: Warning: can't find installer main image path in .treeinfo
  

• The installation continues, only to completely fail with this text displayed:

  anaconda 33.16.6.7-1.el8 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 started.
   * installation log files are stored in /tmp during the installation
   * shell is available on TTY2
   * if the graphical installation interface fails to start, try again with the
     inst.text bootoption to start text installation
   * when reporting a bug add logs from /tmp as separate text/plain attachments
  21:10:20: Service org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage has failed to start: Failed to activate service 'org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage': timeout (service_start_timeout=600000ms)
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  Pane is dead (status 1, Thu Jan  4 21:18:30 2024)
  

• Upon using Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to TTY2, looking in the /tmp/anaconda.log file shows:

  ERR stdout: Service org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage has failed to start: Failed to activate service 'org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage': timed out (service_start_timeout=600000ms)
  

• The /tmp/storage.log file shows:

  INFO:program:stderr:
  INFO:program:b'modprobe: FATAL: Module xfs not found in directory /lib/modules/4.18.0-305.el8.x86_64'
  

  ...along with Python and other "FATAL: Module" messages.