I found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290153 had similar problems with dropping to a busybox and the work around was adding rootdelay=90 I tried this on a recently created usb stick and found success, it booted to the Desktop there are other things that users tried but simply giveing a wait provided success.
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