I am going to guess its getting the network up and going. You should be able to hit escape on the screen and see where the boot is in its process. Getting the networking going during boot is something a lot of linux installs will do as most enterprise/devs (tbh the biggest part of their audience) have network attached storage. I have never looked into getting it just to move on past it (it will still start the process for getting networking online, it just shouldnt pause) I know that some fedora installs I have had in the past did this.

But boot it again and hit escape and get more info and if it something else post again here maybe we can help better.

the title of the article says “CHINA suggests it’s open to a US deal for TikTok after all” meaning that when ByteDance went in front of the US lawmakers and said “we are not in china, nor a chineese company” that some part of that must be false as now CHINA is saying that they are open to it.

How can china be open to this, they swore many times over this wasent even a chineese company, let alone owned by their government in any way.