Live USB worked just fine as did the installer. 

After rebooting into the system I have noticed the following problems.

1. No wifi... nm-applet says something about "device not ready".

2. Video corruption initially...

If I do a "teliinit 3" followed by a "telinit 5" everything is fine, but I don't get a login page on first boot, just a corrupted background and a mouse cursor. 

No clue why the live USB works perfectly and the system does not. It was a fresh install on "/" with an existing "/home". 

Thanks,

Richard