Comment # 8 on bug 951222 from Steffen Winterfeldt

> IIRC linuxrc does not print any progress when downloading repository files.

Sure it does.

> Steffen, what about additionally printing a message like...

Again, linuxrc doesn't print _anything_. It just shows among the debug
messages.
Which you don't see. Unless you specifically switch to the logging console.

This is completely OT. The question is _why_ apparently the network is blocked
for that long and at what spot exactly.

For this you could try to boot with

linuxrc.debug=1 linuxrc.log=/dev/console linemode=1 plymouth=0

This will put everything on the default console and we can see better at which
place it stalls.

But please note the opensuse url will auto-redirect to some mirror and curl
then sometimes gets the download size wrong and the printed percentage will
appear to stop for a while and the jump to 100%. Even though there's no
apparent progress it will still download. If that's a slow connection it might
seem to do nothing for a while. To sort this out, ultimately a tcpdump of
the actual network traffic would be needed. Not sure if it's worth that...