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I'm unable to automate installing Rocky9 Linux on a KVM. I am using Kickstart to automate the installation. Instead of the install being automated, the installation screen is shown if I log into the VM console.

Here's the Kickstart script:

# Generated by Anaconda 34.25.4.9
# Generated by pykickstart v3.32
#version=RHEL9
# Use text mode install
text
repo --name="minimal" --baseurl=file:///run/install/sources/mount-0000-cdrom/minimal

%addon com_redhat_kdump --enable --reserve-mb='auto'

%end

# System language
lang en_US.UTF-8

# Use CDROM installation media
cdrom

%packages
@^minimal-environment

%end

# Run the Setup Agent on first boot
firstboot --enable
# Do not configure the X Window System
skipx

# Generated using Blivet version 3.6.0
ignoredisk --only-use=vda
# System bootloader configuration
bootloader --append="crashkernel=1G-4G:192M,4G-64G:256M,64G-:512M" --location=mbr --boot-drive=vda
autopart
# Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=vda

# System timezone
timezone America/New_York --utc

# Root password
rootpw 1234567890

This is how I'm creating the VM:

$ sudo virt-install \
--virt-type kvm \
--name kvm6 \
--ram 2048 \
--vcpus 2 \
--disk size=20 \
--os-variant rocky9 \
--network network=bridged-network \
--graphics none \
--location /tmp/Rocky-9.4-x86_64-minimal.iso \
--check all=off \
--initrd-inject inst.ks \
--extra-args="ks=file:/inst.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200" \
--noautoconsole


Starting install...
Retrieving 'vmlinuz'                                                                                   |  13 MB  00:00:00
Retrieving 'initrd.img'                                                                                | 102 MB  00:00:00
Allocating 'kvm6.qcow2'                                                                                |  20 GB  00:00:00
WARNING  Overriding memory to 3072 MiB needed for rocky9 network install.
Creating domain...                                                                                     |         00:00:00

Domain is still running. Installation may be in progress.
You can reconnect to the console to complete the installation process.
$

If I log into the console, I see the default installation screen, along with the following at the top:

Starting installer, one moment...
15:04:13 Kernel boot argument 'ks' detected. Did you want to use 'inst.ks' for the installer instead?
15:04:13 All Anaconda kernel boot arguments are now required to use 'inst.' prefix!
15:04:13
############## Installer errors encountered during boot ##############
'ks' is deprecated and has been removed.
All usage of Anaconda boot arguments without 'inst.' prefix was removed. Please use inst.ks instead.

My connection is lost when I add an interface to a bridge. Here I want to add eno3 to bridge kvbr0:

sudo ip link add name kvbr0 type bridge
sudo ip addr del 10.120.224.70/23 dev eno3
sudo ip addr add 10.120.224.70/23 brd + dev kvbr0 
sudo ip link set eno3 master br0
sudo ip link set kvbr0 up

10.120.224.70 is the IP address of eno3. After running the above, I can no longer ssh into this address.

This is what I see for the interfaces:

kvbr0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1316
        inet 10.120.224.70  netmask 255.255.254.0  broadcast 10.120.225.255
        ether xxxxxx  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 12920  bytes 791021 (772.4 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 5  bytes 214 (214.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eno3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1316
        ether xxxxxx  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 29895  bytes 2308765 (2.2 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 41  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1431  bytes 802466 (783.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device memory 0x96200000-962fffff

kvbr0 has the previous IP settings from eno3.

The server is running Rocky9 with kernel 6.1.

I tried the above commands on a VM machine running Ubuntu, and I can ssh into the IP address. Is there anything I should be aware of on the server that would prevent network connectivity after running those commands?

The server has an Intel I350 NIC. The product brief says the adapter is "bridgeless." Could this be causing the problem I'm seeing?

When I rewrite the URL by adding a query string, the URL in the browser does not have the query string. Here's what I have:

location / {
    rewrite ^/$ /?page=test break;
}

Instead, I see the original URL in the browser when I visit the root directory. I am able to rewrite to another path.