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Description of problem:
I usually rebuild my hosts as follows:
- download a fresh set of initrd and vmlinux to /boot
- create a "reinstall" grub entry pointing at a kickstart file on the network 
  grubby --add-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz --title=REINSTALL --args="text ks=http://mykickstart" --initrd=/boot/initrd.img --make-default
- restart the host

I had to reinstall a host today, whcih was running 7.3 with ext4 partitions (instead of the default xfs for some reason)

I downloaded the initrd from the internal 7.4-beta location

Install failed at the stage where it was supposed to clear the disk and recreate partitions with XFS, consistently repeated.

When I changed the initrd and vmlinuz to the older files from an internal 7.3 repo everything worked as expected

* See file locations in private comment

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
see above

Actual results:
see above

Expected results:
installation should work

Additional info:

Please add logs from an affected installation run as separate plain-text
attachments. The log files should be located in /tmp during the installation and there is a root shell running on tty2.

Thanks in advance!

Since the host has been reprovisioned successfully, using the 7.3 initramfs, it is now in production and cannot be set up as a reproducer. 

It should be fairly easy to reproduce, I provided all the steps and versions in use. If that is something your team cannot do, feel free to close the BZ, all I wanted to do was report on an issue I came across.

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.