USB installation crashing

I have installed the latest version of Kicksecure onto a Sandisk USB, from a live ISO system, but while booting, it freezes at the screen that says “…loading initial initramfs…”.

I have tried the fix of removing the entries after ‘ro’ in the “linux /vmlinuz-… root=UUID=… ro” line, but it loaded a new page that just crashed.

From what I can gather, it has something to do with the root partition not being read as it is encrypted, I could be wrong.

I have also tried adding the “nomodeset”, also the “efi=disable_early_pci_dma” commands to grub, no luck.

Please assist as I had it working on version 17 and want to install to my HD, but not willing to take on that headache if it won’t even work on a USB.

My USB is GPT and so was the one that I installed it from. It works fine in a BIOS VM, but my machine only supports UEFI.

Thanks in advance.

If you do this, and you encrypted the drive, you also need to leave the rd.luks.uuid=... kernel parameter. That will let the correct drive be found and may permit you to boot.

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