I would like to confirm this issue in a slightly different matter. I
upgraded yesterday from karmic to lucid, with my laptop docked at work.
Attached to the dock was an usb harddisk, which have long had an entry
in my fstab.

I had some issues with the upgrade, which meant I had to reboot at some
point, and had to resolve the upgrade manually in a cli.

Eventually it worked.

However, returning home, I could not boot: no single user, no recovery,
nothing.

After spending 5 hours on this, I believe I have finally found out, that
mountall never emitted the filesystem* event. Most likely because the
usb harddisk was not found. Removing the entry from /etc/fstab resolved
all my issues.

But I will never get the 5 hours back :-(

Anyway: I think this is a bug: If the bloody disk is missing, please
detect this, and provide some kind of feedback, instead of doing
absolutely nothing at all. Had I not had my unix-fu to fall back on, the
system would have been a brick. :-)

Regards, and keep up the good work.

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Cannot boot even in singe or recovery mode if the network settings are wrong or 
filesystem error Lucid Beta 2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561428
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