A start job is running for ifup for eth0

Perfect, exactly what I was looking for. <3

You didn’t understand what I was looking for. There’s no DHCP server. It’s a laptop connected to a PlayStation4 trough a Lan cable.

Yes, and my answer was directed at another user.

Have the same Problem in the latest version 9.8.0.
Network cannot be deactivated (sometimes needed) but regularly wifi is used.
Because there is no real GUI for the network-control I installed “network-manager-gnome” and like you can see the MATE Desktop is used.
To get this used, I used the commands:
sudo ifdown -a --exclude lo
sudo mv /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.unused

and it worked well all the years. The booting time was the USP that convinced me to change to deitpi (far below 1 minute!). But with this latest version now the loading checks seems to be different.

So like it was mentioned before, to get an IP is not the problem, but there must be something in the background which causes the delay over a minute! The change on “boot wait for network” to off has to effect for the delay.

What for options are still there?

first you can check what is causing the delay

systemd-analyze blame
systemd-analyze critical-chain

Thankyou very much - the second commands shows me that it’s not the ethernet.
https://dietpi.com/forum/t/booting-on-pi4-mate-this-now-has-a-1-5-minute-delay/21877