Autoboot CFW problems

I am not the type to make a Q&A thread but I ran into some problems and can't seem to find answers

1 - for whatever reason I can't ever get an edited boot.cfg to be recognized by crt boot. I tried editing in notepad should I use something else?

2 - When I boot into crtboot and try to load pasta or reinand sys I get auto booted back to crt. Any idea why this is doing this?

Thanks for the help guys