I got past that. It attempts to boot from USB drive but this is as far as it goes.  See attachment. 
 

Okay. I am using Rufus but it does not like the ISO. The complaint is "the ISO you have selected contains a UEFI bootloader that has bween revoked. and that will produce a "Security Violation" screen. Rufus suggests a more up to date ISO. linuxCNC 2.9.4 is not current enough?

Can you post your config files?

Long story short, a lot of things were changed before I replaced the the 7i97t. Since then, I have have been cutting with zero issues. The thcad for arc volts is reading accurately while cutting. The thcad for ohmic is not hooked up. I can't get it to work, but maybe that's a good thing because it sounds like it's a bad idea with hf start.

The longer story is that this machine didn't have a home. So while its new home was being built, I set it up temporarily in my shop, so I could attempt to retrofit it with linuxcnc. When I fired up the torch for the first time, it damaged the 7i97t. This was with both ohmic and arc volts hooked up, so its anybodys guess what caused it. I added some grounds and an emi filter and few other things then replaced the 7i97t. Then I got it working great with a non hf plasma(except I didn't hook up ohmic).
Then after it was moved into its new home, we added several ground rods and hooked it up to the hf start plasma the way you had just advised. It's been cutting great. 

I know I ask a lot stupid questions but I do appreciate the help. 

Its an Ethernet card, i got the motors to spin as though it were a milling machine, but SCARA isn't an option. The default it has is XYZ, XYZA and XZ lathe, none of those options are what i need. I followed a few guides that said how to change the kinematics but so far, following those guides, I've had no luck. I was hoping that might be able to helps me out with either more direct communication or by providing a working example.

If there was a "known problem" it would have been fixed pretty quick.
The guys that build the ISO test them, they aren't just built and thrown out into the wild, things just don't work that way.
Usually in these kind of issues the first port of call should be to check the download as tommy suggests, rather than just assume it's a problem with the way the ISO has been built.

Is there any reason you cant boot from a USB drive ?