On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 09:32 -0400, John Chludzinski wrote:
After finally completing and trying to reboot, the machine goes into "Emergency Mode" and asks that I log in as root. That fails and the machine becomes completely unresponsive.
I tried the minimum install and got the same result.
Try booting from a live CD to see if that gives you any info. TBH it sounds like a hardware issue.
P.