
I will try to post later with some updated info. Not any fixes per se, but perhaps enough info that someone smarter than me can interpret. Give me a couple of hours and I'll try to have it all posted...

Also, I am currently booted into a liveUSB session that is curently 'pretending' to be my goto lappy.

I am booted up on metal using the 20Mar2019 ISO image. Default boot no changes to grub cmd line. So far a seemingly error free boot, and now at aprx. 17 hours of uptime, pretty confident in the 'state' of the machine.
I'll check back here for info, advice, or cake.