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>>>> ~$ gpart show ada0
>>>> =>       34  250069613  ada0  GPT  (119G)
>>>>         34        128     1  freebsd-boot  (64k)
>>>>        162   41943040     2  freebsd-ufs  (20G)      /
>>>>   41943202    1048576     3  freebsd-swap  (512M)    swap
>>>>   42991778    8388608     4  freebsd-ufs  (4.0G)     /var
>>>>   51380386    4194304     5  freebsd-ufs  (2.0G)     /tmp
>>>>   55574690  192216088     6  freebsd-ufs  (91G)      /usr
>>>>  247790778    2278869        - free -  (1.1G)
>>>
>>> It would not cause this problem, but those partitions are not aligned.
>>> That would only affect speed, not reliability.
>>
>> geezes, it's not even on a 4K boundary from the get-go;
>> not sure how that happened.
>> let-alone the 1M boundary I just learned about.
> 
> That's a normal install.  It's fine for 512-byte devices. 
> I have other suggestions too, but let's save that until the problem is fixed.

aaahhh.  Vague recollections of getting this to boot up first time around.

How about suggestions anyway, as I'm going to build an sata disk and move
things to that as part of the process to see what's wrong.  May as well get
it right-ish the first time; then repartition the SSD.

Thanks.