stuck on this "A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up" after zorin splash screen
 

boot from bios fine.
enter password disk.sda3.crypt and now stuck on this command, no limit time

HP Notebook 15 running zorin OS 12.4 core

Absolutely love the user name.

Do you have an external device attached like a USB flash drive or external hard drive? You could try removing it having shut down.

You will see a very similar - almost identical - problem to your own in this thread:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...0t-4175633655/

A web search yields many results, for instance

https://askubuntu.com/questions/7921...-finish/792157

Yes, these two links above refer to Ubuntu, but seeing as Zorin is based on Ubuntu it should help.