In reply to@elvishjerricco:matrix.org I believe the gap between Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. and Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check configuration. is the gap where nothing is happening. I see some of these plymouth debug messages on screen, and then it stays like that for about 8 seconds, and then the password prompt suddenly shows up.
Weird... Yeah I don't know any potential causes off the top of my head
I have a curious issue with the systemd initrd. The 9p mounts break when I start a VM with virtualisation.diskImage = null; and I have absolutely no idea how why where and what is going on. It works if the root is not volatile (so not a tmpfs). I only found this message: 9pnet_virtio: no channels available for device which sounds like kmods are missing.