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There was an issue causing boot to stall about 5min after 'running hook [uresume]' sometimes entirely black.
The cause was a 'uresume' entry in the HOOKS line in /etc/mkinitcpio that wasn't removed during install (though there was a mkiniticpio.pacnew, placed, which I had missed). After removal and running as root 'mkinitcpio -p linux' the boot was fast again.
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