virt-install hangs at boot menu on RHEL 7

Today was yak shaving the virt-install environment from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7

We auto create a custom ISO for virt-install to consume and point to the kickstart server. We use the serial console for everything

On RHEL 6, we can see the BIOS / syslinux boot menu confirming to boot from the ISO

On RHEL 7, we just get a blank screen...

Many hours of determining if the contents of the ISO created on RHEL 6 can work on RHEL 7, and googling just about every combination of virt-install, hang, RHEL 7, CentOS, and RTFM virt-install, I saw a new flag to virt-install on RHEL 7

--boot menu=on,useserial=on
Enable the bios boot menu, and enable sending bios text output over serial console.

And we instantly see the boot menu dialog, and back to normal building!

Leaving this here for anyone else having issues seeing the boot menu over serial

Going to Work

A typical journey to work...

Walking to the Mosman Bay ferry wharf:


Here comes the 8:30 ferry:



View of the City coming around Cremorne Point:


Sydney Icons from Cremorne Point:


Kirribilli:


North Sydney:


The Rocks, coming into Circular Quay:


Coming into the ferry wharf at Circular Quay - Grosvenor Place is the centre building


The bridge from Circular Quay:


Walking up through Herald Square looking at the Tank Stream Fountain:


Work - Level 44 of Grosvenor Place:


View from kitchen - looking out to Cremorne Point - on a lovely Autumn morning:


View from kitchen - looking over The Rocks to North Sydney: