I'm not sure if I had a card in the slot or not, I want to say no. It doesn't matter now, I'm up and running.... linus is talking to me... or at least was until I rm -rf /root/.linus

When I find some free time, I'll figure out how to change bootmenu initfs flasher time out from 30 seconds to ~3 since /mnt/initfs/bootmenu.conf is on a read only partition. It looks like I may have to re-install fanoushes initfs_flasher with my modified bootmenu.conf file. Something I'm weary of doing.