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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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    Hi Maegan. Looks like I spoke too soon. When I tried another SDD drive it did the same thing. Maybe it's a size issue? None of the external drives I'd tried earlier were over 100Gb. The first drive that failed was 250Gb, and this one that's doing it now is 1Tb.
    I did reformat the 250Gb drive to Fat32, single partition and it did the same thing. I actually completely wiped the drive. Deleted the partition table altogether and overwrote each sector with all zeros. Then I created a single partition and formatted it Fat32. I'm going to try a smaller partition and see if that makes a difference. At this point I'm completely shooting in the dark.
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    Hi Maegan. Looks like I spoke too soon. When I tried another SDD drive it did the same thing. Maybe it's a size issue? None of the external drives I'd tried earlier were over 100Gb. The first drive that failed was 250Gb, and this one that's doing it now is 1Tb.
    I did reformat the 250Gb drive to Fat32, single partition and it did the same thing. I actually completely wiped the drive. Deleted the partition table altogether and overwrote each sector with all zeros. Then I created a single partition and formatted it Fat32. I'm going to try a smaller partition and see if that makes a difference. At this point I'm completely shooting in the dark.
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