I work for a major educational system that utilizes Ubuntu Server
(14.04, 16.04 LTS) instances on the Amazon Web Services cloud for
critical infrastructure.  This bug has come up a few times, where an
admin has a typo or other error in /etc/fstab, pertaining to a non-OS
filesystem (like an EFS data volume), and as a result, the system fails
to boot.  On a physical machine, this wouldn't be a big deal: press "S"
to skip that mountpoint, and keep booting; or if that doesn't work, boot
from live media and fix fstab.  However, a cloud instance doesn't grant
you those options: it hangs forever, and you have no physical keyboard,
USB port, or optical drive with which to workaround the problem.

I normally wouldn't suggest a certain priority on a bug, but this is a
severe liability for anyone running Ubuntu in a cloud computing
environment.  Therefore, I must respectfully request that this bug be
elevated to "Major" or "Critical" status.

Thank-you.

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  Failure to boot if fstab disk mounts fail

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