On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 02:25:48AM -0000, WhyteHorse wrote:
> It drops to a shell prompt with a motd that says "Emergency Mode please
> run <some command> to review the boot logs or else run <some other
> command> to boot normally". I don't recall the exact text but it's a
> root shell...

Ok.  This appears to be the expected 'emergency' mode with systemd, so for
15.04 and later that is what you would see on a failure to mount a local
filesystem.

> In 14.04 it did display the "Press S to skip waiting for filesystem".

That is also expected.

> In 14.10 I went to the grub menu and switched to an older kernel and it
> worked with the skip message, but the newer kernel just dropped to the
> shell.

This behavior should not vary by kernel.  If you can reproduce this error on
a 14.10 system, this would be worth us investigating.

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