After further investigation, I've come to think that it might be that I'm installing onto a USB instead of simply creating live media on USB. I've been able to perform a regular install using FreeBSD. This is desirable from the standpoint that it's persistent and allows me to explore options with bh...

I performed a search of the forums and found this post that suggests switching to another USB port: https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=1600&p=8379&hilit=successful+installation+reboot+hangs+splash#p8379 Unfortunately, I find that the problem persists in each of the three po...