It was most likely the alpha1 image. I installed it on the internal emmc using jumpdrive as well as on an sd card. I usually upgrade the sd card first and reboot to make sure everything works before updating the emmc. Unfortunately the sd card is not recognized a boot anymore so I will have to restore a backup to it.
There may a be a pause during the initial, or post install boot while the file system is expanded. After that on boot the Mobian splash screen appears fairly quickly, for just a moment, followed by the prompt for the password to decrypt the file system.
In early days, pre installer image, Phosh would crash during a large apt update/upgrade but with ctrl+alt+f1 I could get to a terminal an see that dpkg was running.
There may a be a pause during the initial, or post install boot while the file system is expanded. After that on boot the Mobian splash screen appears fairly quickly, for just a moment, followed by the prompt for the password to decrypt the file system.
In early days, pre installer image, Phosh would crash during a large apt update/upgrade but with ctrl+alt+f1 I could get to a terminal an see that dpkg was running.