Please try booting with "initcall_debug earlycon=efifb" and see if kernel starts printing without that delay. Note this would usually slow done the boot process quite a lot, and I'm not sure if it actually works on a VMware virtual machine.
Please try booting with "initcall_debug earlycon=efifb" and see if kernel starts printing without that delay. Note this would usually slow done the boot process quite a lot, and I'm not sure if it actually works on a VMware virtual machine.