Using USB with minimal allowed me to get to the screen with the four penguins before hanging on dracut-initqueue, and not doing anything for about an hour. Using a disk I was able to get to the same spot, where it hangs (I waited 3 hours that time, nothing). Using USB and DVD version would not allow me to boot, I thought this made sense but Centos's installation tutorial specifically mentions the DVD version to use with the USB drive, so apparently this should work as well. It was also strange since a seprate third Ubuntu machine I had reported that those DVD usbs were bootable. Used windows dd command as shown in the tutorial and made sure I was getting the right sdb for the USBs, and burning software for the disk version ISO.
Tried Test media, which also hanged indefinitely
I also tried swapping the drives but it still hangs, Output has changed since I needed to turn off the computer since it wasn't doing anything during init hoosk, but the current output is:
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[ OK ] Started Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller
Starting Open-iSCSI...
[ OK ] Started Open-iSCSI
Starting dracut initqueue hook...
[ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
[ OK ] Reached target Paths.
[ OK ] Reached target Basic System.
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