Doug Mildram wrote:
> ON BOOT, it would sometimes STOP at this prompt
>
> initramfs>
>
> and with good eyes as the boot-attempt screen(s) would fly by and return to
> above prompt,
> I discovered I could fix it with  (  actually i did not use the "-y"
> prompt, but it's the same fix either way)
>
> initramfs>  fsck -y /dev/sda1

What kernel version are you running? If it is 4.19.x, you may have have hit a data corruption bug in Linux's block layer:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.19-EXT4-Issue-Likely-MQ

My suggestion--rollback to 4.18.x until this is all resolved.
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