Comment 6 for bug 1437386

Yes, UEFI is turned off since the beginning.

I tried what it says in the link you gave, although there was no vt.handoff option (in vivid image). I didn't get to initram shell. A lot of blurb went by quickly and stuck at one point, which was:

Starting Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to quit...

Before that all (that I could see) messages said OK except one:

Failed to start Commit a transient machine-id on disk.

HTH, will update if there is anything else.