More involved and I went to sleep - long week. I have been doing apt update and over the last few days via going into rescue mode. Today taking info at
Basically
http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=6032.0grub update took out the recovery mode over the last 3 days, so towo's "e append 3 to linux line F10"
I did the overkill of shutting down x of systemctl stop sddm and then init 3
For my own personal reasons
apt-get remove plymouth
apt update apt-get dist-upgrade -d apt install xserver-xorg-input-evdev apt install xserver-xorg apt-get dist-upgrade systemctl start sddm
I am back up Others probably have more adept methods at doing this.