Hello forum,
(consider this a placeholder! - to obligate myself to document and solve this ‘challenge’ 
)
has someone had a similar experience?
In the local makerspace I was gifted a Lenovo Thinkpad X200x (the old style of keyboard is definitely better than their new keyboards - and “get off my lawn!” 
).
That day I had a USB-drive with NomadBSD 13.1 and booted the Thinkpad. All hardware was detected and I was so happy!!!
BUT trying to USB-boot or install a later version of NomadBSD - both 13.2 and 14.0 - stalls late in the boot-process.
(here I will later paste in the details - and where exactly the boot-process stops)
I have tried to research what changed in FreeBSD at that point, but haven’t found the right answer yet…
Have a nice day 
BSD-regards
Tom Ludensen