(In reply to Thomas Zimmermann from comment #6) > (In reply to Alan Hughes from comment #5) > > (In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #4) > > > Could you check whether it's a recent plymouth issue? > > > e.g. try to boot with options "plymouth.enable=0 splash=none". Does the 20 > > > seconds delay still happen? > > > > Tried as requested, the 20 second delay *does* disappear, so I guess it is > > linked to plymouth. > > I have a plymouth fix pending for the recent upgrade. The test repo is > linked at https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233532#c29. If > possible, could you give it a test? This *did not* solve the problem; the 20 second delay was still present. I'll attach the latest dmesg output, although a superficial glance suggests that it is the same as before.