systemd fails to boot most of the time

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 02:07:08 -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote:
>My current Ubuntu 16.10 system is constantly failing to boot, and it 
>seems systemd is failing to recognize my fstab partitions. Sometimes, 
>booting works normally, but most times it does not, and I'm left in 
>Emergency mode. I have to reboot many many times until it eventually 
>works.

Hi,

maybe the hard disk is broken. Does smartctl show something
obvious? Are you using SATA cables without clips? How old is the CMOS
battery?

  $ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda

Regards,
Ralf