On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 23:44:42 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 14.06.2014 22:41, schrieb Michael Gold:
> >  * after printing "Welcome to emergency mode!", it took a minute or two
> >    before a password prompt was shown; but that prompt died (I guess)
> >    without accepting any keyboard input, and after another few minutes I
> >    got another welcome message and password prompt (it worked this time)
> 
> Well, that's not quite what happens.
> systemd has a timeout of 90secs where it waits for devices listed in
> fstab to show up. after that it drops into the rescue shell.
> 
> So it's not that the rescue shell takes a long time to start, it's
> simply a timeout where systemd waits.

But why does it print the welcome message 3 times, with a delay each
time?  And why does it give me an unusable root password prompt minutes
before giving me a working one?

-- Michael

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