cool what it turns out is going on is different models have to load different payloads. Very confusing. There is a thread on another forum that breaks it down. Since I guess it is against the rules to link to there I am going to post it here:
Bootmenü:
Linux USB for this payload you need a USB Stick for Boot into Rescue / Shell
- load the initramfs.cpio.gz & bzimage (kernel) from the FAT32 USB / HDD Partition
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v5.3.7
- Loads the initramfs.cpio.gz & bzImage (kernel) from the PS4 Webbrowser Cache with Kernel 5.3.7
CUH 10XX & CUH 11XX works 100%
all others maybe blackscreen use 4.14 Kernel
v5.3.7++
- Loads the initramfs.cpio.gz & bzImage (kernel) from the PS4 Webbrowser Cache with Kernel v5.3.7 with a prepared initramfs.cpio.gz for my PC Monitors)
CUH 10XX & CUH 11XX works 100%
all others maybe blackscreen use 4.14 Kernel
v4.14
- - Loads the initramfs.cpio.gz & bzImage (kernel) from the PS4 Webbrowser Cache with Kernel 4.14 from the psxitarch v2
WORKS FOR ALL CONSOLES WITHOUT PROBLEMS!!
v4.14++
- Loads the initramfs.cpio.gz & bzImage (kernel) from the PS4 Webbrowser Cache with Kernel v4.14 from the psxiarch v2 and with a prepared initramfs.cpio.gz for my PC Monitors
WORKS FOR ALL CONSOLES WITHOUT PROBLEMS!! FIX if you have problem and blackscreen on rescue
source is Mircoho aka op.
So basically way I see it you have a couple of different things to check like type of usb the slot you are in what payload and what files are on the fat 32 partition once you burn the image. He doesn't seem to happy about how complicated it is. All we gotta do is share our knowledge. This is much better than where we were at before. This truly does bring linux to all ps4 consoles not just some. Thing is it takes trial and error.
Yes it does seem to be more problematic than before, but i guess it'll all get combined into a single payload eventually.
I hope they figure out how to fix the root cause of the blackscreen issue and get it to work on my/others PS4 models. I dont know if I'm missing out on any performance increases between kernel versions, seems to run pretty nicely so far.
Now to resize my Linux Partition.