rhel8.8 dracut-initqueue timeout loop when booting from pxe server in virtualized environment UEFI

Posted by South-Palpitation697@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 3 comments

crossposting here, hopefully someone seen this issue before

i'm setting up a pxe server to boot from UEFI rhel8 guest OS over the net. I see these error messages when the system is trying to load the kernel... dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts" messages in loop while booting

this is what i see right before the dracut loop...

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the loops ends with the system starting the dracut emergency shell and a

Warning: /dev/root does not exist message error

also, this is my grub.cfg

set timeout=60

menuentry 'RHEL 8' {

linuxefi images/RHEL-8/vmlinuz ip=dhcp

inst.repo=http://servername/rhel8-install/

initrdefi images/RHEL-8/initrd.img

}

inst.repo location has a valid .treeinfo