systemd fails to boot most of the time

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Fr, 2017-02-24 at 13:28 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> 
> > > My second thought is to rebuild your current initramfs:
> > > 
> > > cd /boot
> > > update-initramfs -ut -k $(name -r)
> > 
> > But boots work, intermittently. As initramfs is RO, it can't be an
> > error in that, can it?
> 
> The intermittnent success/failure is weird (and Ralph might be
> correct
> in wonderting whather it's hardware-related) but I was thining that
> the initramfs might have an incorrect fstab.
> 

there is no fstab in the initrd :)

the initrd reads the root= arg from the kernel cmdline, mounts that
readonly and and jumps into the rootfs (with potentially asking for a
pass phrase in case rootfs encryption is used) ... 

all the rest is done by systemd ...

ciao
	oli
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