Yet another startup issue!!!

[adamw]

you say stuck but how long did you wait, i waited almost 20-25 min fist boot

Thanks S4BRE.
The first few times, I didn't wait long enough for sure...maybe 5 minutes.
However, after reading a few posts like yours, I just left it and came back maybe an hour later, and it was still stuck.

Which OS were you using?
If it was Arch Linux, what output was on the screen?

To keep debugging this, I'm considering sticking with Linux because I don't have serial output, and it's the only one that gives more status than the boot screen.