Install issues Sager / Clevo laptop (7700k/GTX1080)

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Booting the installer goes to text based install. Then complains about no LUKS password set for drive when I select destination drive.

I then came across this thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/qubes-users/-9qRHSkwfy8/CCx08nnTVEAJ

Followed this to a T with my edited ks file. Got it to install. For the Fedora kernel, I used 4.11.9-300.fc26.rpm , but after the last boot. it seems its still booting the default kernel it came with :/ So im dumped to a command login with a bunch of X server errors in the beginning.

Is there a different kernel I should be using?

Grub doesn't even show other options to boot from other than the default kernel