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Hedgehog 4 boots to BusyBox shell

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Anyone know why the Hedgehog 4 boots to a BusyBox shell prompt (initramfs) if you try to start with a USB flash drive plugged in? I have a 250Gb SSD drive that I was going to use to save show files on (so they don't get wiped out if I do a full OS upgrade), but no luck so far. I dropped into the BIOS setup and made the USB ports last on the list, but it still does the same. Tries to start... Get the "HES" logo > Get "Starting Console" with the circle-4 logo > drops to a BusyBox Shell prompt. If I pull the flash drive it starts up just fine. I thought for sure moving the USB boot option to last in line would do it, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?
Oh, and let me be the first to suggest "Pull the flash drive when you boot dummy". That's not a viable option. I'm in a high school performing arts center, so I have a lot of student techs working this console. I don't want to remind them that there's a 250Gb SSD drive waiting to be stolen. Yeah, it's wire tied to the back of the console, but that's easy enough to get around.
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    Can you pst a picture or a video of what you are seeing? If it is an actual BusyBox prompt, then that is not a tool in Hog, so the SSD is causing it to open. I know from experience those drives come with extra software from SanDisk. I use one on my mac, but I formatted it as soon as I plugged it in. I haven't tried to use it with my Hog.

    Something to try:
    - Reset BIOS to defaults and save. // There shouldn't be a need to change BIOS settings with this as long as there are no bootable partitions on the drive
    - If it cannot boot after that, perform a full install.
    - If it can boot, then try booting without the USB drive, plug it in, and see if it is in the file browser. If it's there, then you should be okay to boot with it plugged in.
    - If it's not there, reformat the entire drive to Fat32 with one partition.
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    Can you pst a picture or a video of what you are seeing? If it is an actual BusyBox prompt, then that is not a tool in Hog, so the SSD is causing it to open. I know from experience those drives come with extra software from SanDisk. I use one on my mac, but I formatted it as soon as I plugged it in. I haven't tried to use it with my Hog.

    Something to try:
    - Reset BIOS to defaults and save. // There shouldn't be a need to change BIOS settings with this as long as there are no bootable partitions on the drive
    - If it cannot boot after that, perform a full install.
    - If it can boot, then try booting without the USB drive, plug it in, and see if it is in the file browser. If it's there, then you should be okay to boot with it plugged in.
    - If it's not there, reformat the entire drive to Fat32 with one partition.
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